Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a fit manner; suitably; properly; with propriety; commodiously; conveniently: as, a maxim fitly applied.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a fit manner; suitably; properly; commodiously; conveniently.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. in an appropriate manner
Etymologies
- From fit + -ly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken" which has proven an "apple of gold" to us.”
The Huffington Post: Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens
“But Lincoln described the relationship of the Declaration to the Constitution in the poetic words of Scripture: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
The Huffington Post: Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.”
“Taking his cue from the 25th chapter of the Book of Proverbs – “a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver” – hewrote:”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jefferson, LIncoln, Wilentz, Gates, and Slavery:
“In it Lincoln plays with the figure from Proverbs 25: 11: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.”
“` A word fitly spoken, 'says Solomon, ` how good is it!”
“Rubbish!" he ejaculated; and I felt that a word fitly spoken -- or perhaps unfittingly -- was rebuked.”
“QUOTATION: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
“The phrase fitly expresses the idea that God is eternal, the beginning and end of all things.”
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
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bilby "VOLUMNIA: I would he had! 'Twas you incens'd the rabble;--
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth
As I can of those mysteries which heaven
Will not have earth to know."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009