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abecedarian
adjective
arranged in alphabetical order.
More about abecedarian
The English noun and adjective abecedarian has several closely related senses. As a noun, it means 鈥渟omeone learning the letters of the alphabet,鈥� and more loosely, 鈥渁 beginner in a field of learning.鈥� As an adjective, abecedarian means 鈥減ertaining to the alphabet; arranged in alphabetical order; elementary, rudimentary.鈥� Abecedarian comes from Medieval Latin 补产别肠别诲腻谤颈腻苍耻蝉, a derivative of Late Latin 补产别肠别诲腻谤颈耻蝉, an adjective and noun first used by St. Augustine of Hippo. As an adjective, 补产别肠别诲腻谤颈耻蝉 means 鈥減ertaining to the alphabet; alphabetical.鈥� As a masculine noun, 补产别肠别诲腻谤颈耻蝉 means 鈥渙ne learning the alphabet鈥�; the feminine noun 补产别肠别诲腻谤颈补 means 鈥渆lementary instruction,鈥� and the neuter noun 补产别肠别诲腻谤颈耻尘 鈥渢he alphabet.鈥� The noun abecedarium has been in English since the days of the Old English monk and scholar Byrhtferth of Ramsey, who used the word. In modern English abecedarium is a fairly technical word, meaning 鈥渁n ancient writing system using an alphabet,鈥� usually referring to the languages of ancient Italy (e.g., Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, Etruscan) and the many dialects and local alphabets of ancient Greece. Abecedarian in the sense 鈥渟omeone learning the letters of the alphabet鈥� entered English in the beginning of the 17th century.
how is abecedarian used?
It turns out that the shared element here is in the placement of the letters of each word: They are in abecedarian sequence, meaning the letters聽appear in alphabetical order, something more unusual than I first imagined.
But now that Pie鈥檚 name is set and done, the eyes of the Android naming community must turn to the real challenge: this year鈥檚 Android 10 Q release. We鈥檝e always known that, one day, we鈥檇 have to cross this road, given Google鈥檚 abecedarian naming conventions for Android, and with Google I/O 2019 right around the corner, it鈥檚 time to revisit this nomenclature nightmare to see what the possibilities are.
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foozle
verb (used with or without object)
to bungle; play clumsily.
More about foozle
Foozle 鈥渢o bungle; play clumsily; bungle a stroke at golf,鈥� perhaps comes from German dialect fuseln 鈥渢o work badly, clumsily, hurriedly.鈥� The verb foozle is somehow connected with the noun foozle 鈥渁n old fogey; a bungled stroke at golf.鈥� The verb and noun both entered English in the late 1850s.
how is foozle used?
The landscape itself takes on the shape and lineaments of the beloved; according to the fortunes of love, shots desperately flail and foozle or else miraculously take wing and fly over obstacles.
For although I made many excellent, and even brilliant, strokes, I would constantly foozle others, with the result that I never got round the links under 100 …
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More about vernal
Vernal 鈥渞elating to the season of spring鈥� comes from the pretty rare Latin adjective 惫别谤苍腻濒颈蝉, a derivative of the far more common adjective vernus. Vernus is a derivative of the noun 惫脓谤 鈥渢he season of spring,鈥� from Proto-Indo-European 飞别蝉峁�-, which becomes 惫腻谤 in Old Norse, 茅补谤 (and w茅补谤) in Greek, 惫补蝉补谤脿 in Lithuanian, and vesna in Old Church Slavonic. Vernal entered English in the first half of the 16th century.
how is vernal used?
The vernal equinox is one of two points in Earth’s orbit where the sun creates equal periods of daytime and nighttime across the globe. Many people mark it as the first day of the spring.
To this riot of stimuli, this vernal bombardment of the senses, I have capitulated without a fight.
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