adv. 8 æn-. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an enigmatical manner; after the manner of, or by means of, an enigma; ambiguously, obscurely.
1590. Greene, Never too late (1600), 106. For young men ’tis too soone, for olde men too late to marry; concluding so enigmatically, it were not good to marry at all.
1641. French, Distill., i. (1653), 15. Philosophers when they wrote any thing too excellent for the vulgar to know, expressed it enigmatically, that the sons of Art only might understand it.
1744. Berkeley, Siris, § 365. 173. He writes … ænigmatically and briefly in the following terms.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., II. iii. (1871), 82. So ends abruptly as is usual and enigmatically this little incipient romance.
