namely Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb as follows
    to wit; videlicet; viz.; that is to say.

WordNet

Name"ly adverb
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913