ABECEDARIAN Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster In its oldest documented English uses in the early 1600s, abecedarian was a noun meaning "one learning the rudiments of something"; it specifically referred to someone who was learning the alphabet The adjective began appearing in English texts a few decades after the noun
Abecedarian - Academy of American Poets The abecedarian is an ancient poetic form guided by alphabetical order Generally each line or stanza begins with the first letter of the alphabet and is followed by the successive letter, until the final letter is reached
Abecedarian - Wikipedia The Abecedarians were a 16th-century German sect of Anabaptists who affected an absolute disdain for all human knowledge, contending that God would enlighten his elect from within themselves, giving them knowledge of necessary truths by visions and ecstasies, with which human learning would interfere [2][3][4]
Abecedarian | The Poetry Foundation Related to acrostic, a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet