abecedarian

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun One who teaches or studies the alphabet.
• noun A beginner; a novice.
• adjective Having to do with the alphabet.
• adjective Being arranged alphabetically.
• adjective Elementary or rudimentary.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Pertaining to or formed by the letters of the alphabet.
• Pertaining to the learning of the alphabet, or to one engaged in learning it; hence, relating to the first steps in learning.
• Another form is abecedary.
• noun One who teaches or learns the letters of the alphabet.
• noun [capitalized] A follower of Nicolas Storch, an Anabaptist of Germany, in the sixteenth century.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.
• noun One engaged in teaching the alphabet.
• adjective Pertaining to, or formed by, the letters of the alphabet; alphabetic; hence, rudimentary.
• adjective etc., compositions in which (like the 119th psalm in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun rhetoric A work which uses words or lines in alphabetical order.
• adjective Relating to or resembling an abecedarius.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a novice learning the rudiments of some subject
• noun a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
• adjective alphabetically arranged (as for beginning readers)