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Abecedarian
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- 1 Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. archaic
- 2 Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.
"The professor [...] had several other translations or feats of antiquarian deciphering to his credit. Indeed, I was extremely fortunate to find him in at the museum, for he planned to fly within the week to Peru where yet another task awaited his abecedarian talents."
- 3 Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
- 4 Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
- 1 alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers) wordnet
- 1 Someone who is learning the alphabet.
- 2 A member of a 16th-century Anabaptist sect, follower of the Zwickau prophets (and specially of Thomas Storch), who believed that any kind of knowledge (even basic reading and writing) would keep one from obtaining salvation. historical
"Behind the stable doors, where competitors frenziedly shine tack and polish hooves, Donna McNulty busies herself with her horse, Abecedarian."
- 3 a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge wordnet
- 4 An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
"A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire]."
- 5 a novice learning the rudiments of some subject wordnet
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- 6 Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning. archaic
- 7 A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order. rhetoric
"This formal organization is most likely to create obscurity in such elaborate and artificial forms as: palindromes (words, phrases, or verses which read the same backward or forward), abecedarians (poems in which the initial letters of lines or stanzas are arranged to[…])[…]."
Etymology
From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.
From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.
From Latin abecedārius + -an; see abecedarian.
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