Endly
Origin
From Middle English endly, endely ("final"), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk ("final"), Middle High German endelīch ("final").
Full definition of endly
Adjective
endly
- (rare) Final; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
- 2007, Jideofor Aluka, Trickles of a Time:Do not so sink to endly
In fret 'will my tale be heard' ... - 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 ...
- 1903, Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English:Of unitie, shewing of our keeping of the sea: with an endly or finall processe of peace by authoritie.
- 1898, Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Punch, Volumes 114-115 :I pull me up, he push, and endly am i sic on one Foot on the little Waggonstep.
- (rare) Extreme; excessive.
Derived terms
Adverb
endly
- 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 RaÅ›, 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...
- (rare) Extremely; very.