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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. In a proper manner: a duly appointed official.
  2. adv. At the expected time.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In a due manner; when or as due; agreeably to obligation or propriety; exactly; fitly; properly.
  2. n. Same as dulia.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly.
  2. adv. Regularly; at the proper time.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it (anything) ought to be; properly; regularly.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. at the proper time

Etymologies

  1. Middle English duweliche ("rightly, properly"), from dewe ("due") + -liche ("-ly") (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English duely, from due, due; see due. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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