Definition of "fifthly" [fifth•ly]

• In the fifth place; fifth in a row. (adverb)

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• ""fifthly" -- yes, even "sixthly" -- makes top-heavy family trees and puzzling lines of descent."
• ""And mair nor that, he disna haud wi 'repeating tunes," said Walter, who, though a boy, knew the name of every tune in the psalmody -- for that was one of the books which could with safety be looked at under the bookboard when the minister was laying down his "fifthly," and when some one had put leaden clogs on the hands of the little yellow-faced clock in the front of the gallery -- a clock which in the pauses of the sermon could be heard ticking distinctly, with a staidness and devotion to the matter in hand which were quite Cameronian."
• ""fifthly" clause to Section 300 of IPC which at present defines "murder" under four categories."