abecedarian
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English
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[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius ). Equivalent to 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, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes [...] , book II, London: [...] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount [...], →OCLC, page 404:
- A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire ].
- (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, Mediaevalia, volume 19, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies of the State University of New York at Binghamton, 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, 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.
Synonyms
[edit ]- See also Thesaurus: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.
- Arranged in an alphabetical manner. [Mid 17th century.][1]
- Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.
Derived terms
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), "abecedarian", in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles , 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 2
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