accordingly, adv.
(əˈkɔːdɪŋlɪ)
[f. according ppl. a. + -ly2.]
† 1. Harmoniously, agreeably; correspondingly. Obs.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. xvii Into the same vnderstondingis to gidere accordingli thei fallen. 1481 Caxton Myrrour ii. vi. 76 The olyfauntes goo moche symply and accordyngly to gydre. 1514 in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1822) I. ii. iv. 9 The king's most gracious coin is not accepted here [Tournay] and in England accordingly. |
† 2. In accordance with what is proper or due; suitably, becomingly, duly, properly. Obs.
| 1528 Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. xliii. 83 We shall not fail to signify the same unto your highness by our letters accordingly. 1567 Drant Horace's Ep. A. vj. To shape oute things accordyngly besetes a Poet's arte. 1634 Ford P. Warbuck iii. ii. (1811) 57 Enter at one door four Scotch Anticks, accordingly habited; at another Warbeck's followers disguised as four Wild Irish in trowses, long-haired, and accordingly habited. |
† 3. In accordance with the order specified; respectively. Obs.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 842 Empedocles supposeth that Males and Females are begotten by the meanes of heat and cold accordingly. |
4. In accordance with the logical premises; agreeably, correspondingly.
| 1599 Shakes. Much Ado iii. ii. 125 When you haue seene more, & heard more, proceed accordingly. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. vi. 314 He was..adjudged to ride with his face to the Horse-tale at Windsor and Ockingham with papers about his head, which was done accordingly. 1792 Anecd. W. Pitt III. xxxix. 31 He is the receiver of stolen goods, and ought to be treated accordingly. 1848 C. Brontë J. Eyre (ed. 3) v. 36 She told me to remember that she had always been my best friend, and to speak of her and be grateful to her accordingly. |
5. In accordance with the sequence of ideas; agreeably or conformably to what might be expected; in natural sequence, in due course; so.
| 1688 Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 235 He answered he would read it himselfe to y⊇ board, and accordingly read the same. 1772 Pennant Tours in Scotl. 261 (1774) Accordingly having put up two days provisions—we put off. 1860 Tyndall Glaciers i. §13. 92 The summer..was accordingly devoted to this purpose. |
† 6. Accordingly to; agreeably or conformably to; according to. Obs.
| 1500 H. Swinburn Testaments 98 The value of the mariage..is commonlie rated accordinglie to the profites of his landes. a 1520 Myrroure of Our Ladye 69 When ye rede these bokes ye oughte to laboure in your selfe inwardly, to sturre vp your affeccyons accordingly to the matter that ye rede. |
7. Accordingly as = just as, according as. See according adv. 3.
| 1618 tr. Barneveld's Apology G b, Questions were moued accordingly as order required, in these Prouinces. 1880 Cyples Hum. Exp. v. 109 And accordingly as the simultaneity repeats. |