kindly

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kindly/ˈkʌɪndli/

▶adverb

• 1 in a kind manner.

• 2 please (used in a polite request): will you kindly sign this letter.

▶adjective (kindlier, kindliest) kind and gentle.

– phrases
look kindly on regard sympathetically.
not take kindly to not welcome or be pleased by.
take something kindly like or be pleased by something.
thank someone kindly thank someone very much.

– origin OE: adv. from gecyndelīce ‘naturally, characteristically’ (see kind2, -ly2); adj. from gecyndelīc ‘natural’ (see kind1, -ly1).