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1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health sig. Nn3 The Table conteining the principall pointes of the whole booke in Alphabet order.

1604 H. Broughton Aduert. Corrupt. Handling Relig. sig. D2 Their names many together running vpon a letter, shew that from some Alphabet table, they we[r]e fetched: and very vnlearnedly.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 140/1 The Iews and Hebrews used their Alphabet Letters to express their numbers.

1743 W. Stukeley Abury xi. 56 The Egyptians had the good sense, when alphabet-writing was communicated to them, to embrace it, tho' the Chinese will not.

1788 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1787 1 Antiquities 15 Our first missionaries of the gospel were saved the slavish task of alphabet-teachers, for they met with a lettered people.

1859 Sci. Amer. 4 June 332/1 A translator machine, by which the telegraphic marks are translated into the ordinary alphabet characters.

1885 Medium & Daybreak 2 Jan. 12/2 An alphabet card was laid on the table.

1931 Pop. Mech. Apr. 552/1 The fragment..is believed to show that alphabet writing existed as early as the nineteenth century B.C.

1990 J. Faley Up Oor Close i. 26 A stick of ring rock, with a ring for your finger after you'd eaten the rock, with some alphabet sweeties.

2009 T. A. Roberts No Limits to Literacy for Preschool Eng. Learners iv. 88 Two of them [sc. sets of confusable letters] occur very close together in alphabet order and in the case of p and q and i and j right after each other.