abecedarian

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 \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.
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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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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