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alphabeticall

alphabeticall is the obsolete spelling of alphabetical.

Meaning of alphabetical

Adjective

alphabetical (not comparable)

  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
    Synonyms:
    alphabetic
  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

Questions about alphabeticall

What is alphabeticall the obsolete spelling of?
Alphabeticall is the obsolete spelling of alphabetical.

Words near alphabeticall in the dictionary

  1. alphabetical jigsaw
  2. alphabetical jigsaws
  3. alphabetical order
  4. alphabetical orders
  5. alphabeticality
  6. alphabeticall
  7. alphabetically
  8. alphabeticalness
  9. alphabetician
  10. alphabeticians
  11. alphabeticise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alphabeticall (page history and authors); alphabetical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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