beseemly

English edit

Etymology edit

Compare seemly.

Adjective edit

beseemly (comparative more beseemly, superlative most beseemly)

(archaic) fit; suitable; becoming
- 1742, William Shenstone, The Schoolmistress:
  In beseemly order sitten there.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “beseemly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)