“alphabetical”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

alphabetical

释义

alphabetical, a.|ælfəˈbɛtɪkəl|
[f. prec. (or alphabetico in Romance langs.) + -al¹.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or in order of the alphabet.
1567J. Maplet Greene Forest 56 b, All the whole kind of bruite Beastes..with the Alphabetical order.1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 253 That Alphabeticall Psalme..the hundred and nineteenth.1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 341, I made an alphabetical register of them.1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 109 Alphabetical Table of Terms.1837Whewell Induct. Sc. xvi. iii. §1 Arabian writers..adopting an alphabetical arrangement [of plants].
†2. fig. Literal, strict. Obs. rare.
1643Milton Divorce i. xiv, An alphabetical servility.
3. = alphabetic 2.
1806Adm. Off. Rep. 19 Aug. 22 The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty gave a decided preference to the alphabetical mode [of telegraphing].1848A. J. Ellis Fonetics 106 The history of alphabetical writing would lead us to conclude this.

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