1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par., Luke, Pref. Why than should the ghospell seme to be vnaptely sent vnto those which are handlers and louers of the ghospell?
1579. W. Wilkinson, Confut. Fam. Love, 20. Yet are these places by him very vnskilfully cited and vnaptly to the purpose.
c. 1643. Ld. Herbert, Autobiog. (1824), 56. It may be not unaptly called the paying our debts with another Man’s money.
1659. Gentl. Calling, 57. In this respect therefore I may not unaptly apply that Exhortation which the Apostle makes in another.
1748. Smollett, R. Random, xxxiii. This composition was, by the sailors, not unaptly stiled Necessity.
1798. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 101. Dennis, my silver-headed foster-father, may not unaptly personate my real one.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xi. Mr. Wilson’s mind was one of those that may not unaptly be represented by a bale of cotton.
1866. Felton, Anc. & Mod. Gr., I. 168. A soft, yet spicy vivacity, in which it has been not unaptly compared to the Castillian.
