alphabetical

adj

1. (not-comparable)Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.

   “Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects of alphabetical language.”

2. (not-comparable)According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.

   “All names were placed into an alphabetical list.”

3. (not-comparable, obsolete)literal

   “But if an alphabeticall servility must be still urged, it may so fall out,”

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of alphabetical jigsaw.

   “We used to publish two, or sometimes three, alphabeticals a year and I am proposing to resume the same sort of frequency.”