mindly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English myndly, myendly (“mindful; mental”), equivalent to mind + -ly.
Adjective
[edit]mindly (comparative more mindly, superlative most mindly)
- Of or relating to the mind; mental
- 2013, Harold Brodkey, The Runaway Soul:
- My body has a mindly quality—and a mind or consciousness of its own and an ability to calculate.
- 2015, D. Russell Walker, Down Life's Trail:
- I view in the eyes of all older persons I've seen gathered... of questions with no answers to find ... or of how to escape a mindly body that has been battered ... or of ways of mending the mind.