In a wider sense the name acrostic is applied to alphabetical or "abecedarian" poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference

I especially like her long abecedarian of “shadow georgics.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breakthroughs : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference

I have a little abecedarian story about language illustrated by Andrew Drilon.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

Monday, September 08, 2003 someone who writes a book about ABCs is an abecedarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

He is a master of the peculiar narrative, a sublime abecedarian and a very careful and detailed artist.    From Wordnik.com.  [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference

Lots of people are doing the abecedarian meme, but I was particularly taken by Clare Dudman's "X by Dr. Grump".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elsewheres] Reference

Hamby writes: These poems are from a twenty-six-poem sequence of abecedarian sonnets at the center of All-Night Lingo Tango.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference

He's too refined and is bursting his buttons with self-esteem, thanks to Michael Shnayerson's abecedarian hymn to the Gimlet life style in the latest edition of the Book of Common People, a.k.a. Vanity Fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dominick Dunne Slithers Into New York Rat's Nest] Reference

April 4th, 1834, his pious mother was his abecedarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apology for African Methodism] Reference

Especial help the abecedarian know pad printing technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China Precision Steel Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results] Reference

The abecedarian, or philofophic Comment tn the Englifli alphabet, 8vo.is. 6d. — xxi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monthly Review] Reference

The former consists of eighty acrostic, or abecedarian, essays, divided into two books.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

Hence, I will open her abecedarian page and show her how the left, top, and right arrows work.    From Wordnik.com.  [GotPoetry.com News] Reference

It is, instead, a shared, ritual cliché, like the abecedarian series which so delight toddlers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ultrabrown] Reference

My space is up, and I never got to write about abecedarian, mussitate, tetragram or picayune (also from Lindsey).    From Wordnik.com.  [AugustaChronicle.com: Top News and Blogs] Reference

We fade out into green through our abecedarian imagination, captives of that cultural pattern, yet we cleave to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference

Although he spits a few fresh lines here and there, Arabian Prince's stoic, abecedarian flow is sometimes difficult to take seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

To begin at the beginning -- the Alphabetical Blocks and Educational tables from which our Southern abecedarian takes his initial lesson, were projected and manufactured in the North.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Latest on Air America] Reference

Especial help the abecedarian know pad printing technology Drag to Playlist pad printing machine (pad printer) www. china-padprinter.com www. printermaker.com LC Printing Machine Factory Limited Specifications: 100M 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to China Precision Steel Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2010 Results] Reference

I'm a great enthusiast for the fresh energy which slang and neologism bring to the language, but I'm also sentimental about attached to little-used vocabulary (how dare someone threaten the life of abecedarian or hautboys?) as I'm sure are most of you.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Childhood, the abecedarian, may love to plant seeds, to watch them spring, grow, and flower, and to help them do so; but that is the merest a-b-c of gardening, and no more makes him an amateur in the art than spelling words of one letter makes him a poet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amateur Garden] Reference

So came it that, until their alphabetical re-arrangement, the first of all the thirty-five names on the roll was Claude St. Pierre, and that every evening thenceforward when that small kerosene-lamp glimmered in the deep darkness of Bayou des Acadiens, the abecedarian Claude was a teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference

As for the pupils, there is no rest for the soles of their feet; a freshman in the high school is a mere abecedarian part of an ever-moving line, which toils, weighted with pounds of text-books, up and down the stairways of knowledge, climbing to the mansard heights for rhetoric, to descend, past doors to which it must later return, to the foundation floor for Ancient History.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart] Reference

Does Patty really know what dendrochronological ", abecedarian, and threnodist mean?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cynthia Kling: Interview with Janice Marx About Her Daughter's Novel] Reference

It’s a pity then that the abecedarian technique doesn’t work any better than it does.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of the Day: Blue 2] Reference

If you’re going to create the greatest scientific abecedarian text ere conceived, you need to know who your audience is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of the Day: The Invisible ABCs] Reference

Word of the Week #101 - abecedarian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recommended Reading: I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith] Reference

Sophisticated abecedarian fun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pre-SENT Squee!] Reference