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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



... Civilization in England. By Henry Thomas Buckle. Vol. II. From the Second London Edition, to which is added an Alphabetical Index. New York. D. Appleton & ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various

... fellow likely to run you close—an Oxford man, first- class in classics, and a good running-man in his day. I think when they see you they'll prefer you. They will have the six up in alphabetical order, so you'll come last. That's a mercy. Take a tip from me, and don't seem too anxious for the place, it doesn't pay; and keep in ...
— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... first sentence only, and have said that the word "originated" implies that, while Vail admitted that the embryo of the alphabet—the dots and dashes to represent numbers only—was conceived on the Sully, he did not admit that the alphabetical code was Morse's. But when we read the second sentence with the words "devised by the inventor," the meaning is so plain that it is astonishing that any one at all familiar with the facts could have ...
— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

... day—Benjamin Franklin. In the period before the Civil War must be named Edgar Allan Poe (died 1849) and Washington Irving (died 1859). The Civil War group is the large one, and its names are those of the later group as well. Let them be alphabetical, for convenience: William Cullen Bryant, poet and critic; George William Curtis, essayist and editor; Emerson, our noblest name in the sphere of pure essay literature; Hawthorne, the novelist of conscience, as Socrates was its philosopher; Oliver Wendell ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee

... Then she slyly added: "It seems funny, doesn't it, that when 'D' and 'S' are so far apart on the alphabetical list, they should both happen to be overlooked? If the girls don't receive their invitations by to-morrow night I'll speak to my brother about it. He's the president of the junior class, you know, and he'll take it up with the committee. ...
— Marjorie Dean High School Freshman • Pauline Lester


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