Meaning of abecedarian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of a 16th-century Anabaptist sect, follower of the Zwickau prophets (and specially of Thomas Storch), who believed that any kind of knowledge (even basic reading and writing) would keep one from obtaining salvation.
   historical
2. Someone who is learning the alphabet.
3. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
4. Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
   archaic
5. A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
   rhetoric

Equivalents

Examples

“A man may alwaies continue his studie, but not schooling. O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abcedarian [translating abecedaire].”

“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[…])[…].”

“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[…].”

“An Abecedarian is any poem constrained by alphabetical order.”

“Behind the stable doors, where competitors frenziedly shine tack and polish hooves, Donna McNulty busies herself with her horse, Abecedarian.”

“Heckman has been analyzing data from two famous early-childhood intervention programs, the Abecedarian Project of the ’70s and the Perry Preschool project of the ’60s. Both have furnished ample evidence that, if you enroll very young children from poor families in programs that give both them and their parents an extra boost, then they grow up to be wealthier and healthier than their counterparts—less fat, less sick, better educated, and, for men, more likely to hold down a job.”

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