 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abecedarian
adjective: alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
noun
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
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abecedarian \A'be*ce*da"ri*an\, noun [L. abecedarius. A word from
the first four letters of the alphabet.]
1. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
2. One engaged in teaching the alphabet. --Wood.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abecedarian \A'be*ce*da"ri*an\, Abecedary \A'be*ce"da*ry\, adjective
Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet;
alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
{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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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