lipogrammatic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek λιπογράμματος (lipográmmatos, “missing a letter”), from λείπω (leípō) + γράμμα (grámma). Compare French lipogrammatique.
Adjective
[edit]lipogrammatic (not comparable)
- Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters.
- lipogrammatic writings
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lipogrammatic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)