alphabet

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AL'PHABET, noun [Gr.] The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters which form the elements of speech. AL'PHABET, verb transitive To arrange in the order of an alphabet; to form an alphabet in a book, or designate the leaves by the letters of the alphabet
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