appropriately, suitably, fittingly, befittingly, fitly, properly, duly
(adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances; “he was appropriately dressed”; “If you don’t behave properly, you’ll have to leave!”; “I met the junior senator from Illinois and I was duly impressed”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
appropriately (comparative more appropriately, superlative most appropriately)
In an appropriate manner; properly; suitably.
• inappropriately
Source: Wiktionary
Ap*pro"pri*ate*ly, adv.
Definition: In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.
Ap*pro"pri*ate, a. Etym: [L. appropriatus, p. p. of appropriare; ad + propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. See Proper.]
Definition: Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.
Ap*pro"pri*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Appropriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Appropriating.]
1. To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
3. To make suitable; to suit. [Archaic] Paley.
4. (Eng. Eccl. Law)
Definition: To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.
Ap*pro"pri*ate, n.
Definition: A property; attribute. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
