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Webster 1913 Edition
Properly
Prop′er-ly
,adv.
1.
In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly;
as, a word
properly
applied; a dress properly
adjusted. Milton.
2.
Individually; after one’s own manner.
[Obs.]
Now, harkeneth, how I bare me
properly
. Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Properly
PROP'ERLY
,adv.
1.
In a strict sense. The miseries of life are not properly owing to the unequal distribution of things.