Nāme'ly, adv.

adv. 1. With special mention; by particular intention; chiefly; above all. [Obs.] The solitariness of man . . . God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton. 2. To wit; that is to say; videlicet; to particularize. For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining dreams: that several such divinations have been made, none can question. Addison.