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• abecedary

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /eɪ.biː.siːˈdɛː.ɹɪ.ən/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdɛ.ɹi.ən/, /ˌeɪ.biˌsiˈdæɹ.i.ən/

名詞

abecedarian (plural abecedarians)

1. Someone who is learning the alphabet. [Early 17 century.]
2. An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning. [Early 17 century.]
   • 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].

3. (archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning. [Early 17 century.]
4. (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.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:beginner

形容詞

abecedarian (comparative more abecedarian, superlative most abecedarian)

1. (now rare) Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary. [Mid 17 century.]
2. Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets. [Mid 17 century.]
   • 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.

3. Arranged in an alphabetical manner. [Mid 17 century.]
4. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

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