Hypertext Webster Gateway: "namely"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Namely \Name"ly\, adv.
1. By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially;
expressly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

The solitariness of man . . . God hath namely and
principally ordered to prevent by marriage.
--Milton.

2. That is to say; to wit; videlicet; -- introducing a
particular or specific designation.

For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of
divining dreams; that several such divinations have
been made, none ?an question. --Addison.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

namely
adv : as follows [syn: {viz.}, {that is to say}, {videlicet}]

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