abecedarian
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
- From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius)
- abecedary + -an.
- Compare abecedary.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
abecedarian (plural abecedarians)
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He knew the rhetorical devices, from abecedarian, battologia, and contentio, all the way to zeugma |
- Someone who is learning the alphabet. [Early 17th century.][1]
- An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning. [Early 17th century.][1]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.28:
- A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [transl. abecedaire].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.28:
- (archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.[2] [Early 17th century.][1]
- (rhetoric) A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
- 1996, in Mediaevalia (published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton), volume 19, page 133:
- 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 […] ) […]
- 2007, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music Collection of the National Library (ISBN 0754651681), page 590:
- 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 […]
- 2008, Erich J. Goller, Groovy, page 165:
- An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order.
- 1996, in Mediaevalia (published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton), volume 19, page 133:
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:beginner
Adjective [edit]
abecedarian (comparative more abecedarian, superlative most abecedarian)
- (now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. [Mid 17th century.][1]
- Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets. [Mid 17th century.][1]
- 1971, Brian Lumley, ‘Rising with Surtsey’:
- 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. [Mid 17th century.][1]
- Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
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References [edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 2003 [1933], Brown, Lesley editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, edition 5th, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7, page 3:
- ^ 1976 [1909], Gove, Philip Babcock editor, Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged, Springfield, MA: G. & C. Merriam Co., ISBN 0-87779-101-5, page 2:
