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Alphabetical   /ˌælfəbˈɛtɪkəl/   Listen
adjective
Alphabetical, Alphabetic  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, furnished with, expressed by, or in the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement. "English has an alphabetical writing system."
2.
Literal. (Obs.) "Alphabetical servility."
3.
In alphabetical order.
Synonyms: abecedarian





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"Alphabetical" Quotes from Famous Books



... (or alphabetical sign) and V—the right arm stands at position for letter D the left arm ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
... learned works which he perused "with his pen in his hand" is formidable, and fills a quarto page. But he went further than this, and compiled an elaborate treatise on the nations, provinces, and towns of ancient Italy (which we still have) digested in alphabetical order, in which every Latin author, from Plautus to Rutilius, is laid under contribution for illustrative passages, which are all copied out in full. This laborious work was evidently Gibbon's own guidebook in his Italian travels, ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
... the other regular duties. Suppose after this we take turns. One fellow can pitch the tent, another can go for milk, another can get the fire-wood, and the other can cook. We can arrange it according to alphabetical order. For instance, Tom Schuyler pitches the tent to-night, Jim Sharpe goes for milk, Joe gets the fire-wood, and I cook. The next time we camp, Jim will pitch the tent, Joe will get the milk, I will get the wood, and Tom will cook. ...
— Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... richly illustrated work "Sir Joshua Reynolds" (1900) treats the subject exhaustively, and contains a complete descriptive catalogue and directory of Reynolds's works—portraits and subject pictures—arranged in alphabetical order. ...
— Sir Joshua Reynolds - A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the - Painter with Introduction and Interpretation • Estelle M. Hurll
... from this end of the world for words and uses of words peculiar to Australasia, or to parts of it. In answer to his call I began to collect; but instances of words must be noted as one comes across them, and of course they do not occur in alphabetical order. The work took time, and when my parcel of quotations had grown into a considerable heap, it occurred to me that the collection, if a little further trouble were expended upon it, might first enjoy an independent existence. Various friends ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


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