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endly en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endelīch (“final”).

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, not-comparable, rare) Final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
    • I pull me up, he push, and endly am i [sic] on one Foot on the little Waggonstep. (in imitation of German) 1898, "Ludwig in London: Walkgo towards Tscerringross", by "Ludwig", in Punch, eds. Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Volumes 114-115, page 65
    • Of unitie, shewing of our keeping of the sea: with an endly or finall processe of peace by authoritie. a''' 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English, published 1903:
    • The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it […] 1972, Igbo market literature - Volume 2 - Page 238
    • Thomas calls it the last or ultimate end—as it were the endliest end. 2015, Stephen L. Brock, The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas:

Deriveds

unendly

endly en · ADV

Etymology

From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endelīch (“final”).

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, not-comparable, rare) Finally; at last.
    • And, endly, mark our tailed arborean ancestors, trained to the wearing of garments and a single eye-glass. 1902, Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders a Tale of the Third Generation:
    • This allows a more flexible resource utilization and better performance: any process can access its data wherever it is, a reduced migration cost can be obtained by the transfer of a minimal part of the process context (the data partially remaining where it is), endly the remote access cost is minimized thanks to the attraction between data and execution context. 1998, Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking:
    • Endly the reverse model still means water infiltration and erosion control, at least in spring when the daily resultant is a water table lowering. 1988, Christophe Bonnard, Landslides:
    • The rains, which are still falling, have endly allayed this evil... 1833, Luke Howard, The climate of London: deduced from meteorological observations...:
    • Endly, some implementation aspects are presented. 1994, Zbigniew Raś, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems: