Definition of "seemly"

seemly

/ˈsiːmli/

adjective
comparative seemlier, superlative seemliest
1. (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
  Quotations
  I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
  Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
  1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, (please specify the page)
adverb
comparative more seemly, superlative most seemly
1. Appropriately, fittingly.
  Quotations
  The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie