Kindly
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent.
(2): ( n.) Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc.
(3): ( n.) According to the kind or nature; natural.
(4): ( adv.) Naturally; fitly.
(5): ( adv.) In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige.
King James Dictionary [2]
Kindly, a. See Kind, the noun. Homogeneal congenial kindred of the same nature. This Johnson supposes to be the original sense but it is also used as a derivative of the adjective, in the sense of
1. Mild bland softening as kindly showers.
Kindly, adv. With good will with a disposition to make others happy or to oblige benevolently favorably. Let the poor be treated kindly.
Be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love-- Romans 12
And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
Genesis 1
