Word Meanings - FITLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied.
Related words: (words related to FITLY)
- APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - CONVENIENTLY
In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - FITLY
In a fit manner; suitably; properly; conveniently; as, a maxim fitly applied. - MAXIMIZATION
The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. Bentham. - PROPERLY
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. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer. - MAXIMIZE
To increase to the highest degree. Bentham. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - MAXIM GUN
A kind of machine gun; -- named after its inventor, Hiram S. Maxim. - APPLICATE
Applied or put to some use. Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements. I. Taylor. Applicate number , one which applied to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of - APPLICATION
1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - APPLIEDLY
By application. - MAXIMILIAN
A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter. - MAXIMUM
The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to Ant: minimum. Good legislation is the - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - INAPPLICABILITY
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness. - VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN
An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked by the recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, which expand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of the barrel, thus moving the latter to the rear - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.