˜yÐÄvlog

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meetly

[ meet-lee ]

adverb

Archaic.
  1. suitably; fittingly; properly; in a seemly manner.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of meetly1

A Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; meet 2, -ly
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All Mankind seemed perfectible & we had Painters & Poets & we were indeed Lords of Matter, all number’d cleanly & meetly.

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But when Melrose he reached, 'twas silence all; He meetly stabled his steed in stall, And sought the convent's lonely wall.

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Her brows crown'd meetly, and, through thee, Her God in sight of all confess'd, She gives in her divinity Meaning and law to garb and vest.

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Having spoken these words, he was houselled of the priest, and died in our Lord; and his son gave him fitting burial, and paid him all such service as is meetly required for the dead.

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And sure enough there they are, a battledore of the best, and twenty shuttlecocks, meetly feathered and gilded.

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