Monogrammatize

I know not how often I have had occasion during my life, when speaking of Romanesque or Gothic objects, to employ such adjectives as "odd," "quaint," "weird," "strange," "wild," "freakish," "antique," and "irregular;" but I am very certain that if they could, according to my good old friend Justinus Kerner’s idea of experiences, be concentrated or monogrammatized into a single word, it would be exactly the one needed to describe the rare old town of Nuremberg.

At one time the rage for combining, inclaving, and contracting was so great that a whole line of Virgil was tortured into a monogram, and it was the common practice in Carolingian and early Imperial diplomas to monogrammatize the royal signature.

It has already been partially indicated above that the name of Jesus (IHCOVC) was treated by the early Christians in a similar manner to that of Christ : abbreviated and monogrammatized.