Felicitously

adv. [f. as prec. + -LY².] In a felicitous manner.

  1.  Happily, prosperously, successfully.

1539.  Cromwell, in Burnet, Hist. Ref. (1679), I. III. xvii. 196. I … shall pray … that … your most dear Son, may succeed you to Reign long, prosperously, and felicitously.

  2.  In an admirably lining manner; with striking appropriateness or grace.

1828.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 70. Never had painter more felicitously realized his conception.

1832.  J. J. Park, Dogmas of Constit., Pref. 17. Sciences … felicitously denominated by the French authors, ‘les sciences d’observation.’

1863.  A. B. Grosart, Small Sins (ed. 2), 77. Emphatically, such ‘small sins’ are what ‘spoil the vines.’ I emphasise the word ‘spoil,’ for, as I take it, it is exquisitely and felicitously descriptive.

1893.  Publishers’ Circular, 3 June, 623/1. Cruikshank’s … designs … felicitously render the grotesque … character of the tales.