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anagram [Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question asked by Pilate. The question was Quid est veritas? [What is truth?], and the answer Est vir qui adest [it is the man who is here]. An anagram that reads the same backward as forward is a palindrome, e.g., "Able was I ere I saw Elba." How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In addition,
Beroalde's use of "cinquieme essence" also recalls the
aichemical frame of reference in the title page of Gargantua where
Francois Rabelais' anagrammatic pseudonym, Maitre Alcofribas, is
followed in apposition by the epithet "Abstracteur de Quinte
Essence. "Crenshaw is a juicy
melon," she begins; and then proceeds to reel off a head-spinning
string of anagrammatic threats and boasts such as "I'd rend
your cares with my shears. Published in 1940
under the anagrammatic pseudonym Roger-Maxe de la Glannege, it was among
the first substantial treatments of a practice deemed abnormal and
obscene. |
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