abecedarian
/ˌeɪbiːsiːˈdɛːrɪən
/adjective
Arranged alphabetically: in abecedarian sequence...
- ‘They're arranged in abecedarian order,’ he told me and I found it.
- But the poem is mostly static, because the sequencing of lines, despite the abecedarian scheme, feels inadvertently arbitrary.
- He still felt abecedarian structures would be appropriate, resulting in an album that's once again awash in simplicity.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from late Latin abecedarius 'alphabetical' (from the names of the letters a, b, c, d) + -an.