alphabetical

1. not comparablePertaining 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

   Synonyms: alphabetic

2. not comparableAccording to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.

   All names were placed into an alphabetical list.

3. not comparableobsoleteliteral

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

   1644, John Milton, The Doctrine & Discipline of Divorce, page 31

plural alphabeticals

1. abbreviationellipsiscrosswordingEllipsis 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.

   2015 March 13, Hugh Stephenson, “A to Z”, in The Guardian