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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



... educated and placed out apprentices, or put to service. Of the Almshouses, Workhouses and Hospitals. The remarkable Places and Things in each Parish, with the limits or Bounds, Streets, Lanes, Courts, and numbers of Houses. An alphabetical table of all the Streets, Courts, Lanes, Alleys, Yards, Rows, Rents, Squares, etc. within the Bills of Mortality, shewing in which Liberty or Freedom they are, and an easy method of finding them. Of the several Inns of Court, and Inns ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield
... at the matter with an open mind. Our alphabetical representations of animal sounds are at best only rough approximations. Most often they are not even that. They are mere arbitrary symbols. We use consonants where the bird uses none, as when we give the name cuckoo to a bird whose cry is really "ooh, ooh." Or else we put in the ...
— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky
... loud aside he considered that these people must be almost civilized. They were introduced. Amaterasuan surnames preceded personal names, which hinted at a culture and a political organization making much use of registration by alphabetical list. They all wore garments which had the indefinable but unmistakable appearance of uniforms. When they had all seated themselves at a large oval table, Harkaman drew his pistol and used the butt ...
— Space Viking • Henry Beam Piper
... pages; 7,000 pictorial illustrations, including many beautiful colored plates; it defines 450,000 terms, many thousands more than any other dictionary. It is the only dictionary the contents of which are arranged in one alphabetical order—an immense time-saver. ...
— The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 • Various
... iron and lumber, is not a house, neither is a jumbled mass of notes music, nor can we call a haphazard arrangement of alphabetical sounds a word. ...
— The Rosicrucian Mysteries • Max Heindel


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