ALPHABET
ADJECTIVES
► ABECEDARIAN pert. to the alphabet; arranged in alphabetical order → 1665
► ABECEDARY 1. according to the alphabet; arranged in alphabetical order → 1580
2. engaged with or needing to learn the alphabet; illiterate → 1589
► UNALPHABETED not acquainted with the alphabet → 1799
NOUNS
► A-B-ABS the alphabet; rudiments, beginning → 1851 Sc.
► ABBACEE the alphabet → 1922 Sc.
► A-B-BUFF the alphabet → 1882 Sc.
► ABECEDARIUM an alphabet → 1986 (Bk.)
► ABECEDARY 1. a table or book containing the alphabet; a primer; the first rudiments of anything → 1432 obs.
2. the alphabet, esp. as written down in order → 1596
► ABERSAY the alphabet → 1877 Sc. obs.
► AH-BAY-SAY the alphabet → 1920 Sc.
► BATTLEDORE a teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord’s Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn → 1697 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BATTLEDORE BOOK a teaching aid consisting of a leaf of paper showing the alphabet, and often the ten digits and the Lord’s Prayer, mounted on a wooden tablet and protected by a thin plate of horn → 1693 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BET a letter of the alphabet → 1969 Amer. dial.
► BLOOMER a floriated initial letter of the alphabet → 1899
► BLOOMING LETTER a floriated initial letter of the alphabet → 1713
► CHRIST-CROSS the alphabet: because in the old horn-books for teaching it to children, the letters of the alphabet were preceded by a cross → 1563 obs.
► CHRIST-CROSS-ROW the alphabet (named from the figure of a cross prefixed to the alphabet in hornbooks and primers for teaching children to read) → 1570 hist.
► CROSS-ROW the alphabet → 1529 obs.
► EBBASAY the alphabet, A B C → 1892 Sc.
► ELEMENTS the letters of the alphabet; hence, the rudiments of learning → 1382 obs.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABCDARIAN ► ABECEDARIAN 1. a person occupied in learning the alphabet → 1603
2. a person engaged in teaching the alphabet and merest rudiments of instruction → 1691
► ABCDARY ► ABECEDARY a person learning or teaching the alphabet → 1607
► ALPHABETARIAN a learner of the alphabet → E17
► BATTLEDORE-BOY a person learning his a b c’s; an abecedarian → 1693 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
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