† appliablyadv.
Obsolete.
In an appliable manner; pertinently, suitably.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb]
wellOE
tidily1340
avenantlya1375
covenablyc1384
featlya1400
propera1400
queema1400
congruelyc1400
conably1411
cordingc1420
convenablyc1430
competentlyc1440
fitc1440
accordantlyc1443
accordinglyc1443
conveniently1447
at pointc1485
congruentlya1529
appliablyc1530
afferandly1536
suitingly1540
aptly1548
answerably1549
fitlyc1550
agreeingly1563
suitable1584
not unfitly1586
aptitudinallyc1600
handsome1600
sortfully1606
sortably1607
congruouslya1620
accommodately1623
adaptlya1648
inabusivelya1677
suitably1681
agreeably1753
appropriately1795
suitly1913
righteous1948
c1530 (title) The dialoges of creatures moralysed Applyably and edificatyfly, to euery mery and iocounde mater.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius iii. f. 420 This doth Paule fittly and applyably enough, to witte, deducyng an Argument, from the reason which leadeth to the absurde.
a1631 J. Donne 50 Serm. (1649) xxviii. 247 God is the God of the whole world..but he is my God, most especially, and most applyably, as he receives me in the severall notions of Father, Sonne, and holy Ghost.
c1660 R. Carpenter Pragmatical Jesuit 27/2 An Ecliptick..bow'd appliably to all our purposes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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