fitly
English
Etymology
From fit + -ly.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɪtli/
Adverb
fitly (comparative more fitly or (rare, literary) fitlier, superlative most fitly or (rare, literary) fitliest)
- In a fit manner
- Synonyms: suitably, properly, commodiously, conveniently
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith […].
- c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act II, scene 1]:
- I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful […]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 25:11:
- A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
- 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XI, Labour”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, OCLC 191225086, book III (The Modern Worker):
- Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.
- 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, 1987, Chapter 28,
- This Court has a solemn duty to protect society against the murderous attacks of dangerous men, whether they be old or young, and to show clearly that it will punish fitly such offenders.
References
- fitly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913