a. [f. as prec. + -IC. Cf. F. lipogrammatique.] Of or pertaining to a lipogram; of the nature of a lipogram.
1739. J. Merrick, Triphiodorus, p. xv. Tryphiodorus is said … to have composed a Lipogrammatick Odyssey, from which he entirely excluded the letter Sigma.
1891. H. Morley, Note to Spect., No. 59, ¶ 2. The earliest writer of Lipogrammatic verse is said to have been the Greek poet Lasus, born in Achaia 538 B.C.
So Lipogrammatism, the art or practice of writing lipograms. Lipogrammatist, a writer of lipograms.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 59, ¶ 2. The first I shall produce are the Lipogrammatists or Letter-droppers of Antiquity.
1816. Southey, Ess., vi. (1832), I. 296. No author ever shackled himself by more absurd restrictions (not even the Lipogrammatists).
1862. Marsh, Eng. Lang., 394. Lipogrammatism … would not deserve to be noticed, had not distinguished authors … occasionally practised it.
