The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fitting \Fit"ting\, a.
Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper. -- Fit"ting*ly, adv. --
Fit"ting*ness, n.
--Jer. Taylor.
Wiktionary
adv. In a fitting manner
WordNet
adv. in an appropriate manner; "he was appropriately dressed" [syn: appropriately, suitably, befittingly, fitly] [ant: inappropriately, inappropriately]
Usage examples of "fittingly".
But according to such as hold that there are two hypostases or two supposita in Christ, it may fittingly and properly be said that the Son of God assumed a man.
And thus it is plain that Christ is fittingly called the Head of the Church.
Therefore it cannot be said fittingly that Christ as man was a victim.
Hence God Himself fittingly honors such relics by working miracles at their presence.
And therefore we can fittingly say that Christ was conceived of the Holy Ghost in such a way that the efficiency of the Holy Ghost be referred to the body assumed, and the consubstantiality to the Person assuming.
Since the old Law was given under the form of sensible signs, therefore also was it fittingly written with sensible signs.
Or, again, it may be said fittingly that it signifies the clarity of the world redeemed, which clarity will cover the saints as a tent.
Since, therefore, it is in baptism that we acquire grace, while the clarity of the glory to come was foreshadowed in the transfiguration, therefore both in His baptism and in His transfiguration the natural sonship of Christ was fittingly made known by the testimony of the Father: because He alone with the Son and Holy Ghost is perfectly conscious of that perfect generation.
First of all, since being flesh of human nature, it is fittingly offered for men, and is partaken of by them under the Sacrament.
Divine wisdom, therefore, fittingly provides man with means of salvation, in the shape of corporeal and sensible signs that are called sacraments.
By reason of its coolness it tempers superfluous heat: wherefore it fittingly mitigates the concupiscence of the fomes.
Objection 1: It seems that the three kinds of Baptism are not fittingly described as Baptism of Water, of Blood, and of the Spirit, i.
But children have no conscience, either good or bad, since they have not the use of reason: nor can they be fittingly examined, since they understand not.
Whether Certain Acts of the Virtues Are Fittingly Set Down As Effects of Baptism, to Wit--Incorporation in Christ, Enlightenment, and Fruitfulness?
Therefore circumcision was fittingly instituted in the person of Abraham.