nonalphabetized

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adjective

Not in alphabetical order; nonalphabetical.

Scrabble 32

Meanings

adjectivenonalphabetized (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot in alphabetical order; nonalphabetical.

    With a slight modification of this fragment we can produce a nonalphabetized Roman numeral phone book.

    2010, Charles F. Van Loan, K.-Y. Daisy Fan, Insight Through Computing, page 210
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    Publishers' two main objectives—comprehensiveness and political correctness—were simply antithetical to a good narrative, Ferguson maintained; the fact that the books were team written and committee approved made them more like nonalphabetized encyclopedias than descriptive histories.

    2015, Lawrence R. Samuel, Remembering America: How We Have Told Our Past

    On the nonalphabetized tax list of Greene County, Greenberry was listed between James H.M. Smith and John T. Williams.

    2019, Marsha Hoffman Rising, The Family Tree Problem Solver
  2. not comparableNot educated in the use of an alphabet.

    The variety of fonts and types is a reminder that the printer was introducing the alphabet into a nonalphabetized culture and to a nonprint audience.

    2000, Patricia Crain, The Story of A
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    An examination of the literacy practices of the nonalphabetized, that is, those who have not acquired alphabetic writing through schooling, makes sense in a context such as ours, with large masses of unschooled people who have to cope daily with all sorts of literate institutions in various kinds of literacy events.

    1998, Marta Kohl de Oliveira, Jaan Valsiner, Literacy in Human Development, page 206

    Using the same kind of procedure as Morais et al. (1979), Read, Zhang, Nie, and Ding (1986) compared alphabetized and nonalphabetized but literate Chinese readers. The performance displayed by the nonalphabetized but literate Chinese adults was similar to that of the Portuguese illiterates, whereas the results obtained by the alphabetized Chinese adults were similar to those of the Portuguese ex-illiterates.

    2005, Lars Backman, Claes von Hofsten, Psychology at the Turn of the Millennium
  3. not comparableNonalphabetic; that does not involve the use of alphabetic spelling.

    Nonalphabetized sounds include: sighing, laughing, weeping, foot tapping, drumming fingers, whistling, humming, booing, coughing.

    2006, Arthur O. Roberts, Messengers of God
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    In his analyses of the history of nonalphabetized languages, Marr did not take into account isogloss demarcations, and merely speculated about the ways human collectives learned to systematize and communicate discrete experiences.

    2002, Nina Perlina, Olʹga Freidenberg's Works and Days, page 74

    The ethnographic collection provides material from Amazonian and Chaco cultures including examples of nonalphabetized writing, which is from the 18th century and was used to bring Christianity to the illiterate Indians.

    2016, Lonely Planet, Michael Grosberg, Brian Kluepfel, Lonely Planet Bolivia

Origin

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