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English
Adverb
2dly (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of secondly. Obsolete form of 2ndly.
1730, the Marquis Scipio Maffei, translated by Alexander Gordon, A Compleat History of the Ancient Amphitheatres. More peculiarly Regarding the Architecture of thoſe Buildings, and in Particular that of Verona., London: Harmen Noorthouck, Chap. XVI. This Treatiſe is here ended, by giving an Account of the Theatre of Pola, which till now has been taken for an Amphitheatre., page 398:And 2dly, ſince I myſelf have ſeen it, I have with no ſmall Probability been able to diſcover that the other Building in Pola [tho’ deſcribed as a Theatre, and accordingly delineated as ſuch by Serlio, and called ſo in the dark Ages, when ſuch Names were given at random] was in effect no Theatre at all, but a magnificent Palace.