Meaning of abecedarian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone who is learning the alphabet.
2. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.
3. Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.
   archaic
4. A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
   rhetoric

Translations

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.”

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