All 22 Uses
anagram
in
The Da Vinci Code
(Edited)
- Few people realized that anagrams, despite being a trite modern amusement, had a rich history of sacred symbolism.
Chpt 19-20 *anagrams = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- The mystical teachings of the Kabbala drew heavily on anagrams—rearranging the letters of Hebrew words to derive new meanings.
Chpt 19-20
- French kings throughout the Renaissance were so convinced that anagrams held magic power that they appointed royal anagrammatists to help them make better decisions by analyzing words in important documents.
Chpt 19-20
- The Romans actually referred to the study of anagrams as ars magna—"the great art."
Chpt 19-20
- Oh, lame saint! was a perfect anagram of… Leonardo da Vinci!
Chpt 19-20
- Her shock over the anagram was matched only by her embarrassment at not having deciphered the message herself.
Chpt 21-22
- After all, she was no stranger to anagrams—especially in English.
Chpt 21-22
- When she was young, often her grandfather would use anagram games to hone her English spelling.
Chpt 21-22
- "I can't imagine," Langdon said, staring at the printout, "how your grandfather created such an intricate anagram in the minutes before he died."
Chpt 21-22
- She now recalled that her grandfather—a wordplay aficionado and art lover—had entertained himself as a young man by creating anagrams of famous works of art.
Chpt 21-22anagrams = words or phrases spelled by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases
- In fact, one of his anagrams had gotten him in trouble once when Sophie was a little girl.
Chpt 21-22
- While being interviewed by an American art magazine, Saunière had expressed his distaste for the modernist Cubist movement by noting that Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a perfect anagram of vile meaningless doodles.
Chpt 21-22anagram = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- "My grandfather probably created this Mona Lisa anagram long ago," Sophie said, glancing up at Langdon.
Chpt 21-22
- Saunière's clever anagrammatic message was still on his mind, and Langdon wondered what Sophie would find at the Mona Lisa… if anything.
Chpt 21-22anagrammatic = relating to a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- Merely so Langdon could help her break an anagram?
Chpt 21-22anagram = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- After all, Saunière had no reason to think Langdon was especially skilled at anagrams.
Chpt 21-22anagrams = words or phrases spelled by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases
- More important, Sophie had stated flat out that she should have broken the anagram on her own.
Chpt 21-22anagram = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- Sophie was supposed to break that anagram on her own.
Chpt 21-22
- Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female.
Chpt 25-26
- I missed the first two anagrams, Robert.
Chpt 29-30anagrams = words or phrases spelled by rearranging the letters of other words or phrases
- Later, she realized the numbers were also a clue as to how to decipher the other lines—a sequence out of order… a numeric anagram.
Chpt 43-44anagram = a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- "Rose," Langdon added, "is also an anagram of Eros, the Greek god of sexual love."
Chpt 59-60
Definitions:
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(1)
(anagram) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)