endly

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

endly (not comparable)

1. (rare, now nonstandard) Final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
   • a 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English, published 1903:

     Of unitie, shewing of our keeping of the sea: with an endly or finall processe of peace by authoritie.

   • 1898, "Ludwig in London: Walkgo towards Tscerringross", by "Ludwig", in Punch, eds. Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Volumes 114-115, page 65:

     I pull me up, he push, and endly am i [sic] on one Foot on the little Waggonstep.

     (in imitation of German)

   • 1972, Igbo market literature - Volume 2 - Page 238:

     The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it […]

   • 2015, Stephen L. Brock, The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas:

     Thomas calls it the last or ultimate end—as it were the endliest end.

Derived terms

• unendly

Adverb

endly (not comparable)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Finally; at last.
   • 1998, Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking:

     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.

   • 1994, Zbigniew Raś, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems:

     Endly, some implementation aspects are presented.

   • 1988, Christophe Bonnard, Landslides:

     Endly the reverse model still means water infiltration and erosion control, at least in spring when the daily resultant is a water table lowering.

   • 1902, Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders a Tale of the Third Generation:

     And, endly, mark our tailed arborean ancestors, trained to the wearing of garments and a single eye-glass.

   • 1833, Luke Howard, The climate of London: deduced from meteorological observations...:

     The rains, which are still falling, have endly allayed this evil...

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:lastly

Anagrams

• Edlyn, Lyden, Lynde

Middle English

Adjective

endly

1. Alternative form of endely

Adverb

endly

1. Alternative form of endely