Part 6261

<note>&hand; "Nothing ethical was connoted in <i>kindly</i> once: it was simply the adjective of <i>kind</i>. But it is God's ordinance that <i>kind</i> should be <i>kindly</i>, in our modern sense of the word as well; and thus the word has attained this meaning."</note>

<i>Trench.</i>

<h1>Kindly</h1> <Xpage=813>

<hw>Kind"ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Naturally; fitly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Chaucer</i>.

<blockquote>Examine how <b>kindly</b> the Hebrew manners of speech mix and incorporate with the English language <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.</def>

<blockquote>Be <b>kindly</b> affectioned one to another, with brotherly love. <i>Rom. xii. 10. </i></blockquote>

<h1>Kindness</h1> <Xpage=813>

<hw>Kind"ness</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Kind</er>. <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.</def>

<blockquote>I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human <b>kindness</b> To catch the nearest way. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Unremembered acts Of <b>kindness</b> and of love. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A kind act; an act of good will; <as>as, to do a great <ex>kindness</ex></as>.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- Good will; benignity; grace; tenderness; compassion; humanity; clemency; mildness; gentleness; goodness; generosity; beneficence; favor.</syn>

<h1>Kindred</h1> <Xpage=813>

<hw>Kin"dred</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>kinrede</ets>, <ets>kynrede</ets>, <ets>kunreden</ets> (with excrescent <ets>d</ets>), fr. AS. <ets>cunn</ets> kin, race + the termination <?/, akin to AS. <ets><?/dan</ets> to advise, G. <ets>rathen</ets>. Cf. <er>Hatred</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.</def>

<blockquote>Like her, of equal <b>kindred</b> to the throne. <i> Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.</def>

<blockquote>I think there's no man is secure But the queen's <b>kindred</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity.</syn>

<h1>Kindred</h1> <Xpage=813>

<hw>Kin"dred</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; <as>as, <ex>kindred</ex> souls; <ex>kindred</ex> skies; <ex>kindred</ex> propositions.</as></def>

<blockquote>True to the <b>kindred</b> points of heaven and home. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Kine</h1> <Xpage=813>

<hw>Kine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[For older <ets>kyen</ets>, formed like <ets>oxen</ets>, fr. AS. <ets>c<?/</ets>, itself pl. of <ets>c<?/</ets> cow. See <er>Cow</er>, and cf. <er>Kee</er>, <er>Kie</er>.]</ety> <def>Cows.</def> "A herd of fifty or sixty <i>kine</i>."

<i>Milton.</i>

<h1>Kinematic, Kinematical</h1> <Xpage=813>

<hw><hw>Kin`e*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Kin`e*mat"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to kinematics.</def>

<cs><col>Kinematic curves</col>, <cd>curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.</cd></cs>