COMELY, adjective 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 16:18. I will not conceal his comely proportion. Job 41:12. 2. Decent; suitable; proper; becoming; suited to time, place, circumstances or persons. Praise is comely for the upright. Psalms 33:1. It is comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? 1 Corinthians 11:13. O what a world is this, when what is comely envenoms him that bears it. COMELY, adverb Handsomely; gracefully.
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