secondlyadv.
/ˈsɛk(ə)ndli/, U.S. /ˈsɛkən(d)li/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > on two occasions, twice, or for a second time
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twicec1122
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sere twicea1400
secondarilyc1475
eftersoonsc1540
secondarly1543
severallya1577
twicea1656
bis1877
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adverb] > for a second time, again
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eftersoonsc950
eftsoonc1000
yetOE
againOE
once morelOE
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againwardc1380
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secondly1382
once againc1475
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secondarly1543
backwardly1552
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Lev. xiii. 58 He shal wasshe secoundlich [L. secundo] tho thinges that ben pure.
1608 in Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Var. Coll. (1901) I. 287 But these malicious persons, not satisfied, waylaid your petitioner, and there and then secondly assaulted and wounded your petitioner.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. iii. 113 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.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adverb]
secondlyc1374
second1382
secondary1455
secondarily1534
secondarly1543
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1741 Secundelich þer yet deuyneth noon Vp-on yow two.
c1425 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 106 Furst, to begynne, thys Eolus hath [etc.]... Secundly,..Ofte of myn entent hath he made me mys.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 352 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 106 Syne in a feild of siluer secoundlie he beris Ane egill ardent of air.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings xvi. 19 Secondly, whom shulde I serue?
a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) 51 Man, consider first the nature of the thing that thou intendest, and secondly thine owne nature.
1692 R. 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.].
1712 H. Prideaux Direct. Church-wardens (ed. 4) 12 1st, For absenting from Church. 2dly, For not abiding there till..Sermon be ended.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 36 Secondly, if the mud pierced through had been thrown down by the river in ancient channels, it would have been stratified.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > [adverb] > secondarily
secondly1526
subsidiarily1603
the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > fact of being second > [adverb] > in order of importance
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secondarily?1523
secondly1526
1526 Grete Herball cxlix. sig. Ivv/2 Epithimium..hath vertue pryncypally to purge melancolyke humours, and secōdely flewme.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in 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.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > transition from one subject to another > words marking subdivisions of subjects
firstly1699
secondly1759
1759 O. Goldsmith Pres. State Polite Learning The most diminutive son of fame..has his we and his us, his firstlies and his secondlies.
1874 ‘Max Adeler’ Out of Hurly-burly vii. 87 The clergyman paused just as he was entering upon consideration of ‘secondly’.
1898 J. A. Adams in Advance (Chicago) 28 Apr. 578/1 Jesus was not given to firstlies and secondlies.
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