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abecedarian

noun

  1. a novice; beginner
  2. someone learning the alphabet
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adjective

  1. Relating to the alphabet
  2. Arranged in alphabetical order
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/ / /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/ / /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.ən/

adj

Etymology: From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.

  1. Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
  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.

noun

Etymology: From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.

  1. Someone who is learning the alphabet.
  2. 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].

  3. Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
  4. A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.

    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[…])[…].

    Abecedarian verses are chanted stichoi/stichera verses in which the first letter of each verse follows an alphabetical order.[…]The Amomos, an abecedarian, is the longest psalm in the Psalter[…].