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secondly, adv.|ˈsɛkəndlɪ|
[f. second a. + -ly2.]
†1. For a second time. Obs.
1382Wyclif Lev. xiii. 58 He shal wasshe secoundlich [Vulg. secundo] tho thinges that ben pure. 1608in Rep. MSS. in var. Coll. (Hist. MSS. Comm. 1901) I. 287 But these malicious persons, not satisfied, waylaid your petitioner, and there and then secondly assaulted and wounded your petitioner. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) II. 201 She was secondly married to James Levingston Earl of Newburgh.
2. In the second place; as the second in serial order. Chiefly in the enumeration of heads or topics in a discourse.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 1741 Secundelich þer yet deuyneth noon Vp-on yow two. c1425Lydg. Assembly of Gods 106 Furst, to begynne, thys Eolus hath [etc.]... Secundly,..Ofte of myn entent hath he made me mys. c1450Holland Howlat 352 Syne in a feild of siluer secoundlie he beris Ane Egill ardent of air. 1535Coverdale 2 Kings xvi. 19 Secondly, whom shulde I serue? a1610Healey Epictetus (1636) 51 Man, consider first the nature of the thing that thou intendest, and secondly thine owne nature. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables ccxiv. 185 We are Taught here Principally, Two Things; First,..And yet 2ly. How Prone we are to Indulge our Own Errors [etc.]. 1712Prideaux Direct. Ch.-wardens (ed. 4) 12, 1st, For absenting from Church. 2dly, For not abiding there till..Sermon be ended. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 36 Secondly, if the mud pierced through had been thrown down by the river in ancient channels, it would have been stratified.
†3. In the second place in order of importance, secondarily. Also (nonce-use), in an inferior manner. Obs. rare.
1526Grete Herball cli. (1529) I v b, Epithimium..hath vertue pryncypally to purge melancolyke humours, and secondely flewme. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 407/1 Tyndall handeleth his thyrde sygnificacion very secondly, and fareth as one that woulde fayne walke in the darke.
4. quasi-n. The word secondly used in making subdivisions of a subject.
1759[see firstly 3]. 1874‘Max Adeler’ Out of Hurly-Burly vii. 87 The clergyman paused just as he was entering upon consideration of ‘secondly’. 1898J. A. Adams in Advance (Chicago) 28 Apr. 578/1 Jesus was not given to firstlies and secondlies. |