fitly

adv
/ˈfɪtli/UK

Etymology

From fit + -ly.

  1. derived from figo
  2. inherited from fitt
  3. inherited from fit
  4. suffixed as fitly — “fit + ly

Definitions

  1. In a fit manner

    • 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[…].
    • 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 […]
    • A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA