SECONDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secondly mean? 

• SECONDLY (adverb)
  The adverb SECONDLY has 1 sense:

1. in the second place

  Familiarity information: SECONDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECONDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the second place

Synonyms:

second; secondly

Context example:

second, we must consider the economy

 Context examples 

Secondly, these early discs were much more turbulent than the spiral galaxies we see in our cosmic neighbourhood.

(Dark Matter Less Influential in Galaxies in Early Universe, ESO)

Secondly, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphatase 1 is induced, thereby leads to dephosphorylation and inactivation of Jun N-terminal kinase directly inhibiting c-Jun mediated transcription.

(Fluticasone, NCI Thesaurus)

Secondly, it also had a positive impact on the thermogenic activity of their bodies and their mitochondrial mass and function.

(Study confirms melatonin helps burn calories and curbs weight gain, University of Granada)

Secondly, mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphatase 1 is induced, thereby leading to dephosphorylation and inactivation of Jun N-terminal kinase directly inhibiting c-Jun mediated transcription.

(Hydrocortisone Butyrate, NCI Thesaurus)

First, that you will allow me the free use of my understanding on the present occasion; and secondly, of my room.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Secondly, growers would spend less on buying and applying chemicals—a major part of their overhead cost.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

Yet must we be satisfied; in the first place because we have to be—no other means is at our control—and secondly, because, after all, these things—tradition and superstition—are everything.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. Crupp always called me Mr. Copperfull: firstly, no doubt, because it was not my name; and secondly, I am inclined to think, in some indistinct association with a washing-day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thus N, shall signify a plot; B, a regiment of horse; L, a fleet at sea; or, secondly, by transposing the letters of the alphabet in any suspected paper, they can lay open the deepest designs of a discontented party.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And with regard to Anne's dislike of Bath, she considered it as a prejudice and mistake arising, first, from the circumstance of her having been three years at school there, after her mother's death; and secondly, from her happening to be not in perfectly good spirits the only winter which she had afterwards spent there with herself.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)