abecedariann.adj.

Brit.

/ˌeɪbiːsiːˈdɛːrɪən/, U.S.

/ˌeɪbisiˈdɛriən/

Forms:

α. 1600s abecedariane, 1600s– abecedarian.

β. 1600s–1700s abcedarian, 1600s–1800s ABCdarian, 1600s– abcdarian, 1700s ABC-darian, 1800s abcd-arian, 1800s a-b-c-darian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin abecedarius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin abecedarius (see abecedary n.¹) + -an suffix. Compare earlier abecedary n.², abecedary n.¹, and foreign-language forms cited at those entries.

A. n.

a. A person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education; spec. (U.S.) a member of the youngest group of children in a school (now historical). Formerly also in extended use: †a person who is inexperienced in a particular subject; a novice (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

younglingOE

new-comeOE

novice1340

ginner?c1400

beginner1470

apprentice1489

prentice1489

infant1526

freshmana1557

intrant1560

enterer1565

puny?1570

weakling1575

new comeling1587

novist1587

incipient1589

puisne1592

abecedary1596

neophyte1600

abecedarian1603

bachelor1604

novelist?1608

alphabetary1611

breeching boy1611

tiro1611

alphabetarian1614

principiant1619

unexperienced1622

velvet head1631

undergraduatea1659

young stager1664

greenhorn1672

battledore boy1693

youngster1706

tironist1716

novitiatea1734

recruit1749

griffin1793

initiate1811

Johnny Newcome1815

Johnny Raw1823

griff1829

plebe1833

Johnny-come-lately1839

new chum1851

blanc-bec1853

fledgling1856

rookie1868

elementarian1876

tenderfoot1881

shorthorn1888

new kid1894

cheechako1897

ring-neck1898

Johnny1901

rook1902

fresh meat1908

malihini1914

initiand1915

stooge1930

intakea1943

cub1966

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxviii. 404 O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abecedariane [Fr. abecedaire].

1656 P. K. Surfeit to A B C 29 The learner, let him be but an ordinary Abcdarian in his own language, may read and write within two hours space any missive letters.

1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 54 The divisum Imperium the Emperor had with the Jesuits, whom to every abecedarian in Politics 'tis known to be more his interest during the present grandeur of France, to dismiss from his Councels, than ever 'twas the Venetians to deal so with the Ecclesiastics.

1791 A. G. Sinclair Artis Medicinæ Vera Explanatio 29 It would be consummate folly to put Homer, Virgil, or Horace, into the hands of the young Tyro, or Abecedarian in the Latin and Greek languages, before he has previously gone through his inferiour classics.

1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 195 The goal of every breathless, whip-fearing, abcdarian's valorous strife.

1880 New Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 20 May 325/1 (Time-table) 9 to 9.15 Opening Exercise; 9.15 to 9.25 Abecedarians, &c. &c...Abecedarians should have at least four recitations per day.

1910 Pedagogical Seminary Mar. 26 With the small abecedarians who write one letter after the other quite slowly, that influence cannot be a great one.

1952 Hist. Educ. Jrnl. 4 9 It took a man to handle the boys in the old district school; a woman might be hired in the summer to teach the little abecedarians.

2007 Publishers Weekly Rev. (Nexis) 9 Apr. 52 There's much busy, bright fun in these pages, and budding abecedarians should find plenty to charm them.

b. A teacher of the alphabet or of the basics of a particular subject; a person who teaches in an elementary school. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Abecedarian, one that teacheth the Crosse-row.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1817) iii. 213 (Thos. Farnabie) His distresses made him stoop so low, as to be an abcdarian, and several were taught their horn-books by him.

1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 405 He had a wife and six children, whom he made a shift to maintain, by submitting to be an ABC-darian at Williton in this county.

1785 ‘Mrs. Lovechild’ Art of Teaching in Sport 8 She who lays aside Milton, Gray, and Shakespeare, to turn abecedarian to the children of other people, will surely be entitled to the smiles of the dear little ones.

1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet 1 ABCdarian seems to have been an ancient term for a pedagogue.

1913 Iron Age 10 July 106/1 Can it really be supposed more interesting..for the class-master of a preparatory-school to be an abcdarian for 40 years.

2. historical. With capital initial. A member of a sect of Anabaptists founded in Germany in the first half of the 16th cent. under the leadership of Nicholas Storch (died after 1536), which opposed all forms of learning, including knowledge of the alphabet.

ΚΠ

1814 J. Bell Wanderings of Human Intellect 95 Abecedarians,—a sect of Anabaptists who pretended that, in order to salvation, a person must be unqualified either to read or write, and must be ignorant of the letters of the alphabet; from which circumstance their name originates.

1897 D. G. Brinton Relig. Primitive Peoples vi. 233 They were called the Abecedarians, because they distrusted even the ABC.

1911 G. M. Stratton Psychol. of Relig. Life iii. 66 From such faint and border instances, renunciation passes out into clear absurdity,..where the sect of the ‘Abecedarians’ condemns a knowledge even of the alphabet, since all human learning, of which the alphabet is the foundation, is felt to be a hindrance to the progress of the soul.

1985 Landfall Sept. 263 In early sixteenth-century Zurich a sect of Anabaptists called Abecedarians claimed to have direct inspiration from God and maintained that human learning was an impediment to divine illumination.

2007 P. Haffner Myst. Church iii. 88 From the latter [sc. Anabaptists], sprung such realities as the Abecedarians (now extinct), the Amish, the Hutterites, and the Mennonites.

B. adj.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education (see sense A. 1a). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > novice or beginner

younglinga1250

novice1530

freshmanly1568

elementary1601

neophyte1601

initiatea1616

novitious1619

abecedarian1633

tironizinga1660

novitial1778

neophytic1856

neophytish1897

rookie1902

tironic1909

Sears-Roebuck1917

1633 Bp. T. Morton Discharge Five Imputations 9 His falshood be thus transparent, that every Abcdarian Boy can see thorough it.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §170. 130 Those ABCdarian Nuntii.

1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. 606 There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it.

1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 253 It might give us no advantageous Idea of our Professor's Pupils..to suppose 'em to need Abecedarian Instructions.

1748 A. Hooke Diss. Antiq. Bristol 58 Such an Assemblage of Testimonies, Authorities, and Arguments, will, in the Ballance, weigh down Negative Evidence, Similitudinary Logick, and ABCdarian Philosophy.

1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 148 When she heard my abecedarian interpretation of your abominableness.

1857 Wisconsin Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 77 When I am ready to instruct my abecedarian class, I take the card in my hand and say something like the following: ‘Come, children, don't you want some fun?’

1909 O. Taylor Hist. Sullivan xxvii. 263 A student's progress, beginning at his abecedarian days, advanced to words of two syllables.

1935 M. Earls Manuscripts & Memories i. i. 5 The pen is mightier than the sword... At least so it appeared to some abecedarian youths there in the nineties.

2. = abecedary adj. 1.Recorded earliest in abecedarian psalm n. at Compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > in alphabetical order

alphabetical1543

abecedary1580

alphabetic1642

abecedarian1646

society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [adjective] > the alphabet

alphabetical1543

abecedarian1646

1646 F. Cheynell Plot for Good of Posterity 26 The holy Spirit hath composed some Abcedarian Psalms in Achrosticall verses, according to the order of the Hebrew Alphabet, that children might learn an Alphabet of godlinesse.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xxi. 204 The letter which is most distant in the Abecedarian circle from that which the needle turns to.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 45 The first and more simple ingredients required to the framing of Discourse or Language are stiled Elements Abecedarian.

1836 Eclectic Rev. 16 137 Not that we like the present form in which Sir William has chosen to convey his instruction: an abecedarian arrangement is, after all, but a school-boy's way of getting through difficulties.

1881 Athenæum No. 2801. 10/1 Abecedarian requirements have rendered the present volume the least interesting.

1910 Catholic World Dec. 318 An Irishman, Siadhail, or Sedulius, wrote a beautiful Abecedarian hymn in honor of the Nativity..in the fifth century.

1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) v. 99 Chapter Five shall be comprised of 24 concise segments with headings, in abecedarian sequence.

3. With capital initial. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Anabaptist sect of Abecedarians (see sense A. 2). Now historical and rare.

ΚΠ

1718 I. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie i. 33 The Abecedarian Anabaptists condemn those that know to read and write.

1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 1/1 The Abecedarian theory, in a more moderate form, has had much influence on some modern sects.

1959 B. Russell in E. Gellner Words & Things (1960) 14 Its most logical and complete form was advocated by those who adopted the Abecedarian heresy.

Compounds

abecedarian psalm n. a psalm in which each line or verse begins with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order; esp. any such psalm, based on the Hebrew alphabet, in the biblical Book of Psalms.

ΚΠ

1646*Abecedarian Psalm [see sense B. 2].

1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) We meet with Abcedarian psalms, lamentations, prayers, and the like, chiefly among Hebrew writers.

1893 W. S. Walsh Handy-bk. Literary Curiosities 11 A rude form of acrostic may even be found in the Scriptures,—e.g., in twelve of the psalms, hence called the abecedarian psalms,—the most notable being Psalm cxix.

1921 W. Arensberg Cryptogr. of Dante i. 7 An abecedarian psalm..beginning..with the first letter of the alphabet and ending with the last, is in effect a way of signing God's name as Alpha and Omega.

2006 A. H. Merrill Vandals, Romans & Berbers 286 We have Augustine's own abecedarian psalm against the Donatists.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	abecedarian
释义	abecedariann.adj. Brit. /ˌeɪbiːsiːˈdɛːrɪən/, U.S. /ˌeɪbisiˈdɛriən/ Forms: α. 1600s abecedariane, 1600s– abecedarian. β. 1600s–1700s abcedarian, 1600s–1800s ABCdarian, 1600s– abcdarian, 1700s ABC-darian, 1800s abcd-arian, 1800s a-b-c-darian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin abecedarius , -an suffix. Etymology: < post-classical Latin abecedarius (see abecedary n.¹) + -an suffix. Compare earlier abecedary n.², abecedary n.¹, and foreign-language forms cited at those entries. A. n. 1. a. A person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education; spec. (U.S.) a member of the youngest group of children in a school (now historical). Formerly also in extended use: †a person who is inexperienced in a particular subject; a novice (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxviii. 404 O fond-foolish for an old man to be ever an Abecedariane [Fr. abecedaire]. 1656 P. K. Surfeit to A B C 29 The learner, let him be but an ordinary Abcdarian in his own language, may read and write within two hours space any missive letters. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 54 The divisum Imperium the Emperor had with the Jesuits, whom to every abecedarian in Politics 'tis known to be more his interest during the present grandeur of France, to dismiss from his Councels, than ever 'twas the Venetians to deal so with the Ecclesiastics. 1791 A. G. Sinclair Artis Medicinæ Vera Explanatio 29 It would be consummate folly to put Homer, Virgil, or Horace, into the hands of the young Tyro, or Abecedarian in the Latin and Greek languages, before he has previously gone through his inferiour classics. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. i. 195 The goal of every breathless, whip-fearing, abcdarian's valorous strife. 1880 New Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 20 May 325/1 (Time-table) 9 to 9.15 Opening Exercise; 9.15 to 9.25 Abecedarians, &c. &c...Abecedarians should have at least four recitations per day. 1910 Pedagogical Seminary Mar. 26 With the small abecedarians who write one letter after the other quite slowly, that influence cannot be a great one. 1952 Hist. Educ. Jrnl. 4 9 It took a man to handle the boys in the old district school; a woman might be hired in the summer to teach the little abecedarians. 2007 Publishers Weekly Rev. (Nexis) 9 Apr. 52 There's much busy, bright fun in these pages, and budding abecedarians should find plenty to charm them. b. A teacher of the alphabet or of the basics of a particular subject; a person who teaches in an elementary school. Now rare. ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Abecedarian, one that teacheth the Crosse-row. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses (1817) iii. 213 (Thos. Farnabie) His distresses made him stoop so low, as to be an abcdarian, and several were taught their horn-books by him. 1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. ii. 405 He had a wife and six children, whom he made a shift to maintain, by submitting to be an ABC-darian at Williton in this county. 1785 ‘Mrs. Lovechild’ Art of Teaching in Sport 8 She who lays aside Milton, Gray, and Shakespeare, to turn abecedarian to the children of other people, will surely be entitled to the smiles of the dear little ones. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet 1 ABCdarian seems to have been an ancient term for a pedagogue. 1913 Iron Age 10 July 106/1 Can it really be supposed more interesting..for the class-master of a preparatory-school to be an abcdarian for 40 years. 2. historical. With capital initial. A member of a sect of Anabaptists founded in Germany in the first half of the 16th cent. under the leadership of Nicholas Storch (died after 1536), which opposed all forms of learning, including knowledge of the alphabet. ΚΠ 1814 J. Bell Wanderings of Human Intellect 95 Abecedarians,—a sect of Anabaptists who pretended that, in order to salvation, a person must be unqualified either to read or write, and must be ignorant of the letters of the alphabet; from which circumstance their name originates. 1897 D. G. Brinton Relig. Primitive Peoples vi. 233 They were called the Abecedarians, because they distrusted even the ABC. 1911 G. M. Stratton Psychol. of Relig. Life iii. 66 From such faint and border instances, renunciation passes out into clear absurdity,..where the sect of the ‘Abecedarians’ condemns a knowledge even of the alphabet, since all human learning, of which the alphabet is the foundation, is felt to be a hindrance to the progress of the soul. 1985 Landfall Sept. 263 In early sixteenth-century Zurich a sect of Anabaptists called Abecedarians claimed to have direct inspiration from God and maintained that human learning was an impediment to divine illumination. 2007 P. Haffner Myst. Church iii. 88 From the latter [sc. Anabaptists], sprung such realities as the Abecedarians (now extinct), the Amish, the Hutterites, and the Mennonites. B. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a person who is learning the alphabet or who is engaged in elementary education (see sense A. 1a). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [adjective] > novice or beginner younglinga1250 novice1530 freshmanly1568 elementary1601 neophyte1601 initiatea1616 novitious1619 abecedarian1633 tironizinga1660 novitial1778 neophytic1856 neophytish1897 rookie1902 tironic1909 Sears-Roebuck1917 1633 Bp. T. Morton Discharge Five Imputations 9 His falshood be thus transparent, that every Abcdarian Boy can see thorough it. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs §170. 130 Those ABCdarian Nuntii. 1685 C. Cotton tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. I. 606 There is an abecedarian ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. 1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 253 It might give us no advantageous Idea of our Professor's Pupils..to suppose 'em to need Abecedarian Instructions. 1748 A. Hooke Diss. Antiq. Bristol 58 Such an Assemblage of Testimonies, Authorities, and Arguments, will, in the Ballance, weigh down Negative Evidence, Similitudinary Logick, and ABCdarian Philosophy. 1819 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) III. 148 When she heard my abecedarian interpretation of your abominableness. 1857 Wisconsin Jrnl. Educ. Sept. 77 When I am ready to instruct my abecedarian class, I take the card in my hand and say something like the following: ‘Come, children, don't you want some fun?’ 1909 O. Taylor Hist. Sullivan xxvii. 263 A student's progress, beginning at his abecedarian days, advanced to words of two syllables. 1935 M. Earls Manuscripts & Memories i. i. 5 The pen is mightier than the sword... At least so it appeared to some abecedarian youths there in the nineties. 2. = abecedary adj. 1.Recorded earliest in abecedarian psalm n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > in alphabetical order alphabetical1543 abecedary1580 alphabetic1642 abecedarian1646 society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [adjective] > the alphabet alphabetical1543 abecedarian1646 1646 F. Cheynell Plot for Good of Posterity 26 The holy Spirit hath composed some Abcedarian Psalms in Achrosticall verses, according to the order of the Hebrew Alphabet, that children might learn an Alphabet of godlinesse. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xxi. 204 The letter which is most distant in the Abecedarian circle from that which the needle turns to. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 45 The first and more simple ingredients required to the framing of Discourse or Language are stiled Elements Abecedarian. 1836 Eclectic Rev. 16 137 Not that we like the present form in which Sir William has chosen to convey his instruction: an abecedarian arrangement is, after all, but a school-boy's way of getting through difficulties. 1881 Athenæum No. 2801. 10/1 Abecedarian requirements have rendered the present volume the least interesting. 1910 Catholic World Dec. 318 An Irishman, Siadhail, or Sedulius, wrote a beautiful Abecedarian hymn in honor of the Nativity..in the fifth century. 1992 M. Leyner Et Tu, Babe (1993) v. 99 Chapter Five shall be comprised of 24 concise segments with headings, in abecedarian sequence. 3. With capital initial. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Anabaptist sect of Abecedarians (see sense A. 2). Now historical and rare. ΚΠ 1718 I. Sharpe Hist. Acct. Rise & Growth Heresie i. 33 The Abecedarian Anabaptists condemn those that know to read and write. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects 1/1 The Abecedarian theory, in a more moderate form, has had much influence on some modern sects. 1959 B. Russell in E. Gellner Words & Things (1960) 14 Its most logical and complete form was advocated by those who adopted the Abecedarian heresy. Compounds abecedarian psalm n. a psalm in which each line or verse begins with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order; esp. any such psalm, based on the Hebrew alphabet, in the biblical Book of Psalms. ΚΠ 1646Abecedarian Psalm [see sense B. 2]. 1751 Chambers's Cycl.* (ed. 7) We meet with Abcedarian psalms, lamentations, prayers, and the like, chiefly among Hebrew writers. 1893 W. S. Walsh Handy-bk. Literary Curiosities 11 A rude form of acrostic may even be found in the Scriptures,—e.g., in twelve of the psalms, hence called the abecedarian psalms,—the most notable being Psalm cxix. 1921 W. Arensberg Cryptogr. of Dante i. 7 An abecedarian psalm..beginning..with the first letter of the alphabet and ending with the last, is in effect a way of signing God's name as Alpha and Omega. 2006 A. H. Merrill Vandals, Romans & Berbers 286 We have Augustine's own abecedarian psalm against the Donatists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1603
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