abecedarian

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It is, instead, a shared, ritual cliché, like the abecedarian series which so delight toddlers.

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  1. noun One who teaches or studies the alphabet.
  2. noun One who is just learning; a beginner.
  3. adjective Having to do with the alphabet.
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  • My space is up, and I never got to write about abecedarian, mussitate, tetragram or picayune (also from Lindsey). —  AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs
  • Hence, I will open her abecedarian page and show her how the left, top, and right arrows work. —  GotPoetry.com News
  • We are lost as a country if we think that a passable performance in a debate, a debate in which Joe Biden held back considerably, almost deferentially, is tantamount to abecedarian competency to run this country. —  The Latest on Air America
  • We fade out into green through our abecedarian imagination, captives of that cultural pattern, yet we cleave to it. —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
  • It is, instead, a shared, ritual cliché, like the abecedarian series which so delight toddlers. —  Ultrabrown
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin abecedārium, alphabet, from Late Latin abecedārius, alphabetical : from the names of the letters A B C D + -ārius, -ary.

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  1. Cf. French abécédaire; from Late Latin abecedarius (psalmi abecedarii, alphabetical psalms), from a + be + ce + de, the first four letters of the alphabet (cf. alphabet), + -arius: see -arian.
 

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/eɪbisiˈdeɪriən/
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