alphabetizev.

1691 J. Dunton Voy. round World III. i. 34 But alas, I had not been sixty minutes Alphabetizing and sorting of Books before my old Rambling Maggot began to crawl and bite afresh.

1796 F. Burney Let. 20 June in Jrnls. & Lett. (1973) III. 171 I have now 6 proofs to correct just arrived—& all my list to alphebetize.

1811 European Mag. & London Rev. Feb. 126/2 This is the age of Dictionaries, and all our knowledge is rapidly getting alphabetized.

1880 N.Y. Nation 12 Aug. 2 (advt.) Schools..alphabetized, first by States, second by Towns, third by Initial Letters.

1938 Eng. Jrnl. 27 675 After drill in alphabetizing lists pupils are given repeated exercises in quick word-finding.

1973 Billboard 9 June 42/5 The store categorizes by types of music and does not bother to alphabetize by artist within the categories.

1985 Stud. in Bibliogr. 38 135 Bibcon..can alphabetise variant spellings in Middle English under the appropriate modern form.

2005 J. Weiner Goodnight Nobody xl. 353 Wasn't there something a little suspicious about a woman who..alphabetized her canned goods?

1829 W. Maginn tr. E. F. Vidocq et al. Mem. IV. xlvi. 41 He was alphabetizing, and making the letters S Z, and all the other crooked ones in the alphabet.

1853 Foreign Missionary June 4/1 She, with the three other most advanced girls, also give [sic] much assistance in teaching the rudiments of the colloquial language, as thus alphabetized, to the other girls.

1867 A. M. Bell Visible Speech: Sci. Universal Alphabetics 91 Languages also which have never been reduced to writing may now be alphabetized.

1961 China Q. No. 22. 93 Work is..being done to simplify and alphabetise Chinese characters to facilitate learning to read.

2010 D. Rojinsky Compan. to Empire v. 190 Those mendicant friars entrusted with alphabetizing indigenous languages.

1845 Satirist 9 Nov. 355/2 An alphabetised arrangement of all the new projects.

1909 Daily Chron. 18 Nov. 3/2 This compiling of alphabetized lists is a matter of some little moment.

1991 Internat. Jrnl. Lexicogr. 4 iv. 317 The term ‘English dictionary’ is used here to cover all kinds of word-lists..[including] partially alphabetized works.

2008 M. Houlahan & P. Tacka Kodály Today iii. 64 For your teaching portfolio sing through a selection of the songs in the alphabetized list of songs.

1854 N.Y. Industr. Exhib. Special Rep. G. Wallis 26 in Parl. Papers XXXVI. 9 The alphabetising is accomplished by the simple assortment and arrangement of those titles, which [etc.].

1979 Amer. Speech 1976 51 149 This dictionary uses word-by-word rather than letter-by-letter alphabetizing.

2010 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 77 1669 The first letter of a word is not morally superior to the second letter within the rules of alphabetizing.