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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Seem·ly a. [Compar.Seemlier superl. Seeliest.]  Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.
    He had a seemly nose.   --Chaucer.
 I am a woman, lacking wit
 To make a seemly answer to such persons.   --Shak.
    Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.   --Hooker.
 Syn: -- Becoming; fit; suitable; proper; appropriate; congruous; meet; decent; decorous.