abecedarian

4 definitions found

abecedarian - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Abecedarian \A`be*ce*da"ri*an\, n. [L. abecedarius. A word from
     the first four letters of the alphabet.]
     1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
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     2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. --Wood.
        [1913 Webster] Abecedarian

  Abecedarian \A`be*ce*da"ri*an\, Abecedary \A`be*ce"da*ry\, a.
     Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet;
     alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
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     Abecedarian psalms, hymns, etc., compositions in which
        (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or
        verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.
        --Hook.
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abecedarian - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  abecedarian
      adj 1: alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
      n 1: a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
      2: a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who
         had an absolute disdain for human knowledge

abecedarian - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "abecedarian":
     aboriginal, allographic, alphabetarian, alphabetic, antenatal,
     apprentice, articled clerk, autochthonous, beginner, beginning,
     boot, budding, capital, catechumen, certified teacher, creative,
     dabbler, debutant, dilettante, docent, doctor, dominie, don,
     educationist, educator, elemental, elementary, embryonic, entrant,
     fellow, fetal, fledgling, formative, foundational, freshman,
     fundamental, gestatory, graphemic, greenhorn, guide, guru,
     ideographic, ignoramus, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud,
     inaugural, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular,
     inductee, infant, infantile, initial, initiate, initiative,
     initiatory, instructor, introductory, inventive, lettered,
     lexigraphic, literal, logogrammatic, logographic, lower-case,
     maestro, majuscule, master, melamed, mentor, minuscular, minuscule,
     mullah, nascent, natal, neophyte, new boy, newcomer,
     nonprofessional, novice, novitiate, original, pandit, parturient,
     pedagogist, pedagogue, pictographic, postnatal, postulant,
     preceptor, pregnant, prenatal, primal, primary, prime, primeval,
     primitive, primogenial, probationer, probationist, procreative,
     professor, pundit, rabbi, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, rudimental,
     rudimentary, schoolkeeper, schoolmaster, schoolteacher, smatterer,
     starets, teacher, tenderfoot, transliterated, tyro, uncial,
     upper-case, ur