alphabeticaladj.

Brit.

/ˌalfəˈbɛtᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˌælfəˈbɛdəkəl/

Forms: 1500s alphabetycall, 1500s–1600s alphabeticall, 1500s– alphabetical, 1600s alphabeticalle.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin alphabeticus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin alphabeticus alphabetic adj. + -al suffix¹. Compare later alphabetic adj. and foreign-language parallels cited at that entry.

1. Arranged in an order corresponding to that of the alphabet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > in alphabetical order

alphabetical1543

abecedary1580

alphabetic1642

abecedarian1646

society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [adjective] > the alphabet

alphabetical1543

abecedarian1646

1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe (title page) An alphabetycall dyrectorye or Table also in the ende therof.

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges sig. G.iij (heading) An Alphabeticall Index, declaring the whole discourse of this abridgement.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 341 I made an alphabetical register of them.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 107 (heading) Alphabetical Table of Terms.

1713 R. Bentley Let. 5 Mar. in I. Newton Corr. (1975) V. 386 An alphabetical Index, & a Preface in your own Name.

1788 Calcutta Chron. 17 Jan. Separate Alphabetical List of the Artillery Officers, with References to the Pages where their Ranks are ascertained.

1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. 274 Arabian writers..adopting an alphabetical arrangement [of plants].

1874 J. W. Papworth (title) An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms.

1931 L. D. Arnett & E. T. Arnett Readings in Libr. Methods ii. 108 The alphabetical subject catalogue should have a classed index, as the classed catalogue..must have an alphabetical index.

1971 Post Office Telephone Directory Section 101: London Postal Area 6 The alphabetical listings under ‘Telephone Service’.

1997 J. Seabrook Deeper iv. 108 The Delphi newsreader gave me an alphabetical list of them, beginning with the ‘alts’.

a. Of, relating to, or employing an alphabet; employing or consisting of letters as opposed to syllabic characters, pictographs, etc.; = alphabetic adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [adjective]

alphabetary1569

alphabetical1578

alphabetic1710

alphabetiform1893

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man sig. Ii.i (heading) A Table wherein is quoted the place of euery Principall matter contained in this History, to be sought vnder the Letter Alphabeticall.

1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I may not make my selfe otherwise knowne vnto your worship, then by the two Alphabeticall letters of my name here-vnder printed..T. W.

1672 J. Gregory Great & New Art Weighing Vanity 19 The number of the Beast 666. and the Alphabetical letters A. B. I. S. of great affinity with it.

1743 W. Worthington Ess. on Man's Redempt. viii. 184 The truest Account of the Origin of Alphabetical Writing is, that it was taught by God to Moses.

1793 tr. C. de Pauw Philos. Diss. Greeks II. iv. xi. 275 One hundred and fifty years before the first Olympiad, alphabetical knowledge had made little progress in Greece.

1806 Admiralty Office Rep. 19 Aug. 22 The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty gave a decided preference to the alphabetical mode [of telegraphing].

1848 A. J. Ellis Essent. Phonetics 106 The history of alphabetical writing would lead us to conclude this.

1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xix. 76 Baby Croesus crawls in a pen With alphabetical bricks.

1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers ix. 144 Inside a computer, alphabetical characters and numerals are both stored as numbers.

2002 D. Harding in M. Begnal Joyce & City ii. ix. 123 The origins of language itself..can be traced back to the pre-alphabetic signs of ancient burial sites as well as later alphabetical inscriptions engraved on funeral monuments.

b. figurative. Literal, strict. rare.In later use with reference to quot. 1643.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [adjective]

stafflyc1000

native1579

proper1579

literal1597

Nicodemical1642

alphabetical1643

unallegorical1776

unsymbolic1871

non-figurative1900

1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 22 An alphabetical servility.

2006 L. Morrissey in D. Adams & A. Armstrong Print & Power in France & Eng. 65 Miller..reworks Milton's..refusal of alphabetical servility and his assertion of a liberty to choose from among various senses while reading.

Compounds

alphabetical agency n. chiefly U.S. = alphabet agency n. at alphabet n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1903 F. Crissey in Washington Post 8 Nov. 7/1 The W.C.T.U. and Y.M.C.A. and other alphabetical agencies of civilization.

1946 J. H. Cohen They builded Better than they Knew xv. 162 In 1942-1945, we went through ‘rationing’ and ‘ceiling prices’ and saw the multiplication of alphabetical agencies of government making rules for nearly every act of our daily life.

2002 Canad. Business (Nexis) 15 Apr. 53 I take great delight in quizzing people who think they are the consummate Washington insiders... They know every single alphabetical agency and acronym..and then I say, ‘Have you ever heard of the N-R-S-R-O?’.

alphabetical order n. an arrangement of a series of items in an order corresponding to that of the alphabet; chiefly in in alphabetical order.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > arrangement in alphabetical order

alphabetical order1567

alphabetinga1650

alphabetization1864

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 56^v All the whole kind of bruite Beastes..with the Alphabetical order.

1659 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 2 I shall give the names of all plants..in an alphabetical order, together with their synonyma.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Polyanthea, a famous Collection of common Places, in Alphabetical Order.

1828 Moore's Pract. Navigator (ed. 20) 138 Those are generally put in a table, against the names of their respective places in an alphabetical order.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 811/2 The [linguistic] families of..South America are here given in alphabetical order.

2004 Red Oct. 308/1 If you have a blue fit because he doesn't keep his CDs in alphabetical order, then you are [overreacting].

alphabetical organization n. chiefly U.S. = alphabet agency n. at alphabet n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1892 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 1 Sept. 5/1 The number of what one bright woman calls ‘alphabetical organizations’ is steadily growing larger and larger.

1936 Barron's 27 Apr. 10/1 It cannot explain away..the enormous wastes of many other of its alphabetical organizations.

2011 D. Ohmart Educ. of Old Doc i. 24 No matter the number of HMOs, PPOs and other alphabetical organizations demanding ‘quality of care’, medicine..must remain a trial and error profession.

alphabetical psalm n. = abecedarian psalm n. at abecedarian n. and adj. Compounds.

ΚΠ

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. To King sig. Aa.iij That Alphabeticall Psalme..the hundreth and nintenth.

1755 Monthly Rev. 12 486 These alphabetical psalms,..when wrote in the form of an acrostic,..plainly shew, that they were composed in metre.

1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1955 The alphabetical psalm ( xxxvii)..is almost entirely tetrastichic.

1984 Musica Disciplina 38 29 Augustine's alphabetical psalm against the Donatists.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	alphabetical
释义	alphabeticaladj. Brit. /ˌalfəˈbɛtᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌælfəˈbɛdəkəl/ Forms: 1500s alphabetycall, 1500s–1600s alphabeticall, 1500s– alphabetical, 1600s alphabeticalle. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin alphabeticus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < post-classical Latin alphabeticus alphabetic adj. + -al suffix¹. Compare later alphabetic adj. and foreign-language parallels cited at that entry. 1. Arranged in an order corresponding to that of the alphabet. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [adjective] > in alphabetical order alphabetical1543 abecedary1580 alphabetic1642 abecedarian1646 society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [adjective] > the alphabet alphabetical1543 abecedarian1646 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe (title page) An alphabetycall dyrectorye or Table also in the ende therof. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges sig. G.iij (heading) An Alphabeticall Index, declaring the whole discourse of this abridgement. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 341 I made an alphabetical register of them. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vi. 107 (heading) Alphabetical Table of Terms. 1713 R. Bentley Let. 5 Mar. in I. Newton Corr. (1975) V. 386 An alphabetical Index, & a Preface in your own Name. 1788 Calcutta Chron. 17 Jan. Separate Alphabetical List of the Artillery Officers, with References to the Pages where their Ranks are ascertained. 1837 W. Whewell Hist. Inductive Sci. III. 274 Arabian writers..adopting an alphabetical arrangement [of plants]. 1874 J. W. Papworth (title) An alphabetical dictionary of coats of arms. 1931 L. D. Arnett & E. T. Arnett Readings in Libr. Methods ii. 108 The alphabetical subject catalogue should have a classed index, as the classed catalogue..must have an alphabetical index. 1971 Post Office Telephone Directory Section 101: London Postal Area 6 The alphabetical listings under ‘Telephone Service’. 1997 J. Seabrook Deeper iv. 108 The Delphi newsreader gave me an alphabetical list of them, beginning with the ‘alts’. 2. a. Of, relating to, or employing an alphabet; employing or consisting of letters as opposed to syllabic characters, pictographs, etc.; = alphabetic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > system of writing > alphabet > [adjective] alphabetary1569 alphabetical1578 alphabetic1710 alphabetiform1893 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man sig. Ii.i (heading) A Table wherein is quoted the place of euery Principall matter contained in this History, to be sought vnder the Letter Alphabeticall. 1621 T. W. in tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard Ep. Ded. sig. A3 I may not make my selfe otherwise knowne vnto your worship, then by the two Alphabeticall letters of my name here-vnder printed..T. W. 1672 J. Gregory Great & New Art Weighing Vanity 19 The number of the Beast 666. and the Alphabetical letters A. B. I. S. of great affinity with it. 1743 W. Worthington Ess. on Man's Redempt. viii. 184 The truest Account of the Origin of Alphabetical Writing is, that it was taught by God to Moses. 1793 tr. C. de Pauw Philos. Diss. Greeks II. iv. xi. 275 One hundred and fifty years before the first Olympiad, alphabetical knowledge had made little progress in Greece. 1806 Admiralty Office Rep. 19 Aug. 22 The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty gave a decided preference to the alphabetical mode [of telegraphing]. 1848 A. J. Ellis Essent. Phonetics 106 The history of alphabetical writing would lead us to conclude this. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xix. 76 Baby Croesus crawls in a pen With alphabetical bricks. 1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers ix. 144 Inside a computer, alphabetical characters and numerals are both stored as numbers. 2002 D. Harding in M. Begnal Joyce & City ii. ix. 123 The origins of language itself..can be traced back to the pre-alphabetic signs of ancient burial sites as well as later alphabetical inscriptions engraved on funeral monuments. b. figurative. Literal, strict. rare.In later use with reference to quot. 1643. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [adjective] stafflyc1000 native1579 proper1579 literal1597 Nicodemical1642 alphabetical1643 unallegorical1776 unsymbolic1871 non-figurative1900 1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 22 An alphabetical servility. 2006 L. Morrissey in D. Adams & A. Armstrong Print & Power in France & Eng. 65 Miller..reworks Milton's..refusal of alphabetical servility and his assertion of a liberty to choose from among various senses while reading. Compounds alphabetical agency n. chiefly U.S. = alphabet agency n. at alphabet n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1903 F. Crissey in Washington Post 8 Nov. 7/1 The W.C.T.U. and Y.M.C.A. and other alphabetical agencies of civilization. 1946 J. H. Cohen They builded Better than they Knew xv. 162 In 1942-1945, we went through ‘rationing’ and ‘ceiling prices’ and saw the multiplication of alphabetical agencies of government making rules for nearly every act of our daily life. 2002 Canad. Business (Nexis) 15 Apr. 53 I take great delight in quizzing people who think they are the consummate Washington insiders... They know every single alphabetical agency and acronym..and then I say, ‘Have you ever heard of the N-R-S-R-O?’. alphabetical order n. an arrangement of a series of items in an order corresponding to that of the alphabet; chiefly in in alphabetical order. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > arrangement in alphabetical order alphabetical order1567 alphabetinga1650 alphabetization1864 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 56^v All the whole kind of bruite Beastes..with the Alphabetical order. 1659 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 2 I shall give the names of all plants..in an alphabetical order, together with their synonyma. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Polyanthea, a famous Collection of common Places, in Alphabetical Order. 1828 Moore's Pract. Navigator (ed. 20) 138 Those are generally put in a table, against the names of their respective places in an alphabetical order. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 811/2 The [linguistic] families of..South America are here given in alphabetical order. 2004 Red Oct. 308/1 If you have a blue fit because he doesn't keep his CDs in alphabetical order, then you are [overreacting]. alphabetical organization n. chiefly U.S. = alphabet agency n. at alphabet n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1892 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 1 Sept. 5/1 The number of what one bright woman calls ‘alphabetical organizations’ is steadily growing larger and larger. 1936 Barron's 27 Apr. 10/1 It cannot explain away..the enormous wastes of many other of its alphabetical organizations. 2011 D. Ohmart Educ. of Old Doc i. 24 No matter the number of HMOs, PPOs and other alphabetical organizations demanding ‘quality of care’, medicine..must remain a trial and error profession. alphabetical psalm n. = abecedarian psalm n. at abecedarian n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. To King sig. Aa.iij That Alphabeticall Psalme..the hundreth and nintenth. 1755 Monthly Rev. 12 486 These alphabetical psalms,..when wrote in the form of an acrostic,..plainly shew, that they were composed in metre. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 1955 The alphabetical psalm ( xxxvii)..is almost entirely tetrastichic. 1984 Musica Disciplina 38 29 Augustine's alphabetical psalm against the Donatists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1543
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