alphabetical

Etymology

From alphabet + -ical.

adj

1. 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. 1986, Arthur Hilary Armstrong, A. A. Armstrong, Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, page 486
2. According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.
   All names were placed into an alphabetical list.
3. (obsolete) literal
   But if an alphabeticall servility must be still urged, it may so fall out, 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, page 31