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unˈfitly, adv.
[un-1 11.]
In an unfit or unsuitable manner; unfittingly, inappropriately.
1561T. Norton tr. Calvin's Inst. i. xiii. 37 b, Least if I bryng foorth any thyng vnfittly, it shuld geue occasion..to the malicious to cauill. 1632Massinger & Field Fatal Dowry iii. i, Wherein hath Charalois Unfitly so demean'd himself? 1676J. Cooke Marrow Chirurg. i. iii. vii. 590 There are chaps of the Lips and other parts, which if neglected or unfitly dressed, may turn Cancerous. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lx. VI. 128 Their military talents were unfitly recompensed by the lucrative offices of judges and treasurers. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. vii. 393 It is, however, unfitly interpolated, by the editor, as a continuation of the Chronicon Pictorum.
b. In the phr. not unfitly.
1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 160 The answer also of an Egyptian was not unfitlie made to one that asked him what he caried there folded. 1615Crooke Body of Man 541 Thence also they are not vnfitly called by a Poet..The leaues of the Eye. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 236 They..are not unfitly translated aprons. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. §108 The steady consistent methods of nature may not unfitly be styled the Language of its Author. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. II. vi. 215 The three architectures may..not unfitly receive their names from those nations by whom they were carried to the highest perfection. |