Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a fit manner; suitably; properly; with propriety; commodiously; conveniently: as, a maxim fitly applied.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a fit manner; suitably; properly; commodiously; conveniently.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an appropriate manner

Etymologies

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From fit +‎ -ly.

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  • "VOLUMNIA: I would he had! 'Twas you incens'd the rabble;--

    Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth

    As I can of those mysteries which heaven

    Will not have earth to know."

    - William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.

    August 29, 2009