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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

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.

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 can question.

Addison.

adv.

To mention by name; particularly.

For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining in dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question.