ˈappositely, adv.
[f. apposite + -ly2.]
In an apposite manner, appropriately, to the point.
| 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 6 The pulpit can prove nothing so appositely..by Scripture. 1637 Gillespie Eng.-Popish Cer. iv. iii. 12 Thus spake the learned Friar very appositly. 1774 T. Warton Eng. Poetry xx. III. 36 This fable appositely suggests a train of sensible and pointed observations. 1830 Sir J. Herschel Nat. Philos. 54 They are not on that account less appositely cited as instances. |