The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alphabetarian \Al`pha*bet*a"ri*an\, n.
A learner of the alphabet; an abecedarian.
--Abp. Sancroft.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who is learning the alphabet; an abecedarian. 2 A novice or ignoramus.
Usage examples of "alphabetarian".
His master, on the other hand, scrutinized the murals carefully, and blessed his companions with a running commentary on the Mission of Art, replete with many citations from the ancients, the essential thrust of which was that Paul Gauphin was an arrant alphabetarian, a nugatory neophyte, a coarse catechumen, a posturing parvenu who thought to conceal his blatant ignorance of the classic methods of proportion, line, perspective and portraiture by his extravagant colorism, the which was nothing but a maneuver to dupe his patrons by passing off crudity as primitivism.