indexical, a.
(ɪnˈdɛksɪkəl)
[irreg. f. index n. + -ical.]
a. Arranged like an index. b. Relating or pertaining to an index. c. Of the nature of an index or indication.
| 1828 in Webster. 1866 R. W. Small (title) The Carrier's Indexical Ready Reckoner. 1884 American VIII. 267 Lists of indexes and indexical works. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 11 May 350/3 Indexical defects are so common that the reviewer is in danger of becoming hardened to their seriousness. 1897 Harper's Mag. Apr. 744 This is very tame beside the idiomatic Spanish in which it was said, but it is indexical. a 1914 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1932) II. ii. iii. 164 Some indices are more or less detailed directions for what the hearer is to do in order to place himself in direct..connection with the thing meant... Along with such indexical directions of what to do to find the object meant, ought to be classed..selective pronouns. Ibid., Other indexical words are prepositions, and prepositional phrases. 1957 Lingua VII. i. 27 Within the same vowel system, diaphonic differences are considerable, and appear to be highly indexical, both socially and regionally, in differentiating accents within England. 1970 English Studies LI. 276 Beside these indexical features a medium also has aesthetic properties. |
So inˈdexically adv., in the manner of an index, alphabetically.
| 1728 Swift Let. to Pope 16 July, I would have the names of those scriblers printed indexically at the beginning or end of the poem. |