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Grammatical.

Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.

A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender. My noble Neophite, my little grammaticaster. B. Jonson.

A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

A point or principle of grammar. Abp. Leighton.

To render grammatical. Fuller.

Having each verse begin with the same letter as that with which the preceding verse ends.

Pertaining to, containing, or making, anagram. -- An`a*gram*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a diagram; showing by diagram. -- Di`a*gram*mat"ic*ly, adv.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

Written in, or pertaining to, hierograms; expressive of sacred writing. Bp. Warburton.

Omitting a letter; composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; as, lipogrammatic writings.

Monogrammic.

Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.

Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.

ender, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

Lacking grammatical sequence. -- An`a*co*lu"thic*al*ly, adv.

A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.