adv. [f. APPROPRIATE a. + -LY2.] In an appropriate manner.

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  † 1.  Peculiarly, specially, particularly. Obs.

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1531.  Dial. Laws of Eng., II. lv. (1638), 167. That is taken appropriately to be the Law of God, that is contained in scripture.

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a. 1665.  Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 345. When that worship which is appropriately due unto God is given unto any other.

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  2.  In a manner properly suited; fittingly.

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1795.  Seward, Anecd., I. 43 (Jod.). The praise that Robert Bembo so appropriately gives to this great painter [Raphael D’Urbino].

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1832.  Lander, Exp. Niger, III. xviii. 122. Dressed very appropriately in a handsome robe of silk.

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