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abecedarian en · ADJ

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

(archaic) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.
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. 1971, Brian Lumley, Rising with Surtsey:
Arranged in an alphabetical manner.
Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

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more abecedarian	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
abecedary		alternative	lexicographic

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

Someone who is learning the alphabet.
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]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 404:
(archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
(rhetoric) 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[…])[…]. 1996, Mediaevalia, volume 19, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton, page 133:
- 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[…]. 2007, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection of the National Library, →ISBN, page 590:
- An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order. 2008, Erich J. Goller, Groovy, page 165:

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abecedarians	Number=Plur		lexicographic