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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Examples
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Daily Readings from Love Your Life Victoria Osteen 2011
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A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Daily Readings from Love Your Life Victoria Osteen 2011
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The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken" which has proven an "apple of gold" to us.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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But Lincoln described the relationship of the Declaration to the Constitution in the poetic words of Scripture: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken" which has proven an "apple of gold" to us.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken" which has proven an "apple of gold" to us.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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But Lincoln described the relationship of the Declaration to the Constitution in the poetic words of Scripture: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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The assertion of that principle, at that time, was the word "fitly spoken" which has proven an "apple of gold" to us.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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But Lincoln described the relationship of the Declaration to the Constitution in the poetic words of Scripture: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
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But Lincoln described the relationship of the Declaration to the Constitution in the poetic words of Scripture: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ken Blackwell: Pledging Allegiance and Saluting Frank Mickens Ken Blackwell 2011
bilby commented on the word fitly
"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