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Webster 1913 Edition

Properly

Prop′er-ly

,
adv.
1.
In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly;
as, a word
properly
applied; a dress
properly
adjusted.
Milton.
2.
Individually; after one’s own manner.
[Obs.]
Now, harkeneth, how I bare me
properly
.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Properly

PROP'ERLY

,
adv.
Fitly; suitably; in a proper manner; as a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.
1.
In a strict sense.
The miseries of life are not properly owing to the unequal distribution of things.

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