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1. Of or pertaining to the alphabet; marked with the alphabet; arranged in alphabetical order, as abecedarian psalms, like the 119th.
2. Occupied with learning the alphabet, or pertaining to one so occupied.
3. One engaged in teaching the alphabet and the merest rudiments of instruction.

Pertaining to, caused by, or of the nature of an acarus or mite.

1. A reference to acarids or mites.
2. Pertaining to, caused by, or of the nature of an acarus or mite.

1. In Roman history, relating to the land: epithet of a law (Lex agraria) for the division of conquered lands.
2. Relating to, or connected with, landed property.
3. Of, relating to, or connected with, cultivated land, or its cultivation.
4. In botany, growing wild in the fields; also, name proposed for the lowest of the altitudinal zones of vegetation, within the limits of the cultivation of corn.

One learning his alphabet, or the mere rudiments of any subject; a beginner; an abecedarian; also, one who studies alphabets.

1. Pertaining to, or reaching to, the heights (of fancy, doctrine, etc.).
2. One who is given to lofty thoughts or plans.

Properly, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England. Popularly cited as an example of a long word.

Of or connected with the study of antiquities.

One attached to the practices or opinions of antiquity.

Pertaining to bee-hives or bee-keeping.

1. Of or pertaining to the sign of Aquarius; characteristic of a person born under this sign.
2. One of a sect of Christians in the primitive church, who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.
3. Someone who keeps an aquarium.

One who studies and practices attitudes.

1. Favoring strict rules and established authority.
2. Belonging to or believing in a political system in which obedience to the ruling person or group is strongly enforced.
3. Someone who favors or maintains strict rules and obedience to authority.
4. One who supports the principle of authority as opposed to that of individual freedom.

1. Historically, someone who is not a Greek; then it became a person living outside the pale of the Roman empire and its civilization; applied especially to the northern nations that overthrew them; followed by anyone who existed outside the realm of Christian civilization.
2. A rude, wild, uncivilized person.
3. An uncultured person, or one who has no sympathy with literary culture.
4. Applied by nations, generally depreciatively, to foreigners; thus at various times and with various speakers or writers: non-Hellenic, non-Roman (most usual), non-Christian. 5. A foreigner, one whose language and customs differ from the speaker's.

From Greek βάρβαρος barbaros, "non-Greek, foreign, barbarous," from an Indo-European imitative base barb, "to stammer, stutter; and unintelligible." The Greeks were quoted as saying that foreigners sounded as if they were saying, "Barbar, Barbar," which was, for the Greeks, unintelligible.

A librarian.