metagrammatism

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

METAGRAM'MATISM, noun [Gr. beyond, and a letter.] Anagrammatism, or metagrammatism is a transposition of the letters of a name into such a connection as to express some perfect sense applicable to the person named.
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