English

Adverb

fitly ‎(comparative more fitly, superlative most fitly)

1. In a fit manner; suitably; properly; commodiously; conveniently.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:

     Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith […].

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, chapter XI, Labour:

     Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.

References

• fitly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913