abecedarian

noun /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/

1. Someone who is learning the alphabet.

2. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.

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

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.

   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[…])[…].

Where it comes from

From Late Latin abecedarius (from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet + -arius). Equivalent to abecedary + -an. Compare abecedary.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry abecedarian (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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