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anagram

Word or phrase formed by the letters of another word or phrase placed in a different order. For example, ‘disease’ and ‘seaside’ are anagrams of each other.


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Colleville had a passion for reading the horoscopes of famous men in the anagram of their names.
Astrophel' is a fanciful half-Greek anagram for the poet's own name, and Stella (Star) designates Lady Penelope Devereux, who at about this time married Lord Rich.
When this method fails, they have two others more effectual, which the learned among them call acrostics and anagrams.
 
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