abecedarian
- n a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
- n a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
- s alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)
- The "seamless" and communal thought processes of tribal, preliterate man were fragmented; perception itself took on the rigid, abecedarian character of writing.
- The cook who takes the trouble to learn the abecedarian elements of French cooking does not need to buy cookbook after cook book all her life in a frantic search for something .