COMELY, a.
1. Properly, becoming suitable: whence, handsome graceful. Applied to person or form, it denotes symmetry or due proportion, but it expresses less than beautiful or elegant.
I have seen a son of Jesse--comely person. 1 Samuel 16 .
I will not conceal his comely proportion. Job 41 .
2. Decent suitable proper becoming suited to time, place, circumstances or persons.
Praise is comely for the upright. Psalms 33 .
It is comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? 1 Corinthians 11 .
O what a world is this, when what is comely envenoms him that bears it.
COMELY, adv. Handsomely gracefully.
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