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mindly en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English myndly, myendly (“mindful; mental”), equivalent to mind + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to the mind; mental
   • My body has a mindly quality—and a mind or consciousness of its own and an ability to calculate. 2013, Harold Brodkey, The Runaway Soul:
   • I view in the eyes of all older persons I've seen gathered... of questions with no answers to find ... or of how to escape a mindly body that has been battered ... or of ways of mending the mind. 2015, D. Russell Walker, Down Life's Trail:

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