alphabeticallyadv.

1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 68 ^v Let us begin Alphabetically..with the Adder.

1621 Court Proc. 19 Nov. in S. M. Kingsbury Rec. Virginia Company (1906) I. 552 A booke of purpose might be kept to register the said names alphabettically for the ready findinge of them.

1682 London Gaz. mdcclxxxii/1 The Entries are to be made Alphabetically, according to the first Letter of the Sirname.

1701 Interest Eng. Woollen Manuf. 17 A Book kept at Blackwell-Hall for all the Clothiers Names to be inserted, Alphabetically, with their sorts of Cloth.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 59 To avoid all suspicion of partiality and prejudice, we must take the pensions..alphabetically.

1814 T. H. Horne Introd. Study Bibliogr. I. ii. iii. §4. 365 Special bibliographies may be disposed either alphabetically, or systematically.

1885 Act 48 Victoria c. 17 §13 The lists of voters may be made out either alphabetically or by streets.

1939 Fortune Nov. 71/1 The courses range alphabetically from advertising to welding.

1973 J. P. Brooke-Little Heraldic Alphabet 150 A dictionary in which arms are listed alphabetically by the charges they contain.

2003 E. Hay Garbo Laughs xxi. 149 A tiny man with an English accent who filed everything alphabetically.

1639 W. Cartwright Royall Slave iii. i. sig. D4^v Thil. Shall we drinke by dice then, and let fortune name the heyre to the Cup? Str. Or shall we drinke our Mistresses names, and soake it Alphabetically?

1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 574 Then count Alphabetically to E.

a1725 J. Johnson Coll. Disc., Diss., & Serm. (1728) II. 23 To write Alphabetically, is to describe every perfect Sound and Syllable of a Language.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 311 It may be, that the Philistines kept them [sc. the writings of Moses], and learnt from them the Art of Writing alphabetically.

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 325/2 We cannot but suspect that the phonetic portion of Hieroglyphics might be too familiarly known to be deemed worth describing; even as we, in speaking of a foreign language, should scarcely mention that it was written alphabetically.

1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. i. iii. 42 We can trace sound-changes as represented alphabetically in their development from the start to the conclusion.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/3 Showing how Chinese sounds could be reproduced alphabetically or syllabically.

1948 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 7 126/1 Peoples elsewhere were writing—alphabetically and/or syllabically.

2005 E. J. Monaghan Learning to read & write in Colonial Amer. ii. viii. 216 In English as in all alphabetically represented languages, letters represent speech sounds.