Abecedary vs. Abecedarian — What's the Difference?

Alphabetical. Also, of a poem, etc.: that has each verse or line beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, in alphabetical order.

Abecedarians were a 16th-century German sect of Anabaptists who rejected all human learning. Questions have been raised as to the historical accuracy of the name and sect, though the term was applied broadly to the Zwickau Prophets.

(rare) The alphabet, written out in a teaching book, or carved on a wall; a primer; abecedarium.

Arranged alphabetically

One that teaches or learns the alphabet or the fundamentals of any subject; abecedarian.

Rudimentary; elementary

Referring to the alphabet; alphabetical; related to or resembling an abecedarius; abecedarian.

One who teaches or studies the alphabet.

A primer; the first principle or rudiment of anything.

A beginner; a novice.

Having to do with the alphabet.

Being arranged alphabetically.

Elementary or rudimentary.

Someone who is learning the alphabet.

An elementary student, a novice; one in the early steps of learning.

(archaic) Someone engaged in teaching the alphabet; an elementary teacher; one that teaches the methods and principles of learning.

(rhetoric) A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.

Pertaining to someone learning the alphabet or basic studies; elementary; rudimentary.

Pertaining to the alphabet, or several alphabets.

Arranged in an alphabetical manner.

Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

One engaged in teaching the alphabet.

Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.

A novice learning the rudiments of some subject

A 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge

Alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)