abecedarian

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who teaches or studies the alphabet.
2. n. One who is just learning; a beginner.
3. adj. Having to do with the alphabet.
4. adj. Being arranged alphabetically.
5. adj. Elementary or rudimentary.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Pertaining to or formed by the letters of the alphabet.
2. Pertaining to the learning of the alphabet, or to one engaged in learning it; hence, relating to the first steps in learning.
3. Another form is abecedary.
4. n. One who teaches or learns the letters of the alphabet.
5. n. [capitalized] A follower of Nicolas Storch, an Anabaptist of Germany, in the sixteenth century. The Abecedarians are said to have been so called because Storch taught that study or even a knowledge of the letters was unnecessary, since the Holy Spirit would impart directly a sufficient understanding of the Scriptures.

Wiktionary

1. n. rhetoric A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
2. adj. Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
2. n. One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
3. adj. Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
2. n. a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
3. adj. alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)