adv. [f. APPOSITE + -LY2.] In an apposite manner, appropriately, to the point.

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1633.  T. Adams, Exp. 2 Pet. ii. 6. The pulpit can prove nothing so appositely … by Scripture.

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1637.  Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., IV. iii. 12. Thus spake the learned Friar very appositly.

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1774.  T. Warton, Eng. Poetry, xx. III. 36. This fable appositely suggests a train of sensible and pointed observations.

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1830.  Sir J. Herschel, Nat. Philos., 54. They are not on that account less appositely cited as instances.

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