Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

* (Beilby Porteus)

in its strict and appropriate meaning

* (Edward Stillingfleet)

appropriate acts of divine worship

* (John Locke)

It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.

Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.

While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.

* {{quote-news, year=2011

, date=November 10 , author=Jeremy Wilson , title= England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report , work=Telegraph citation , page= , passage=With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets. }}

Adjective

(er)

Pertaining to or relating to the church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical.

*1890 , Jens Christian Jensson, American Lutheran biographies :

[...] upon getting their hearts right in the sight of God, confident, meanwhile, that then all churchly things would not only be conserved, but gathered into right form.

Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.

*1890 , Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, East Anglian :

And in the Smiths of Stratford, in Suffolk, of whom we would now discourse, a middle class family of no great opulence, we have signs of the churchly instinct passing down from generation to generation, [...]

In accordance with ecclesiatical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.

churchly music

*1865 , Samuel Philips, The Christian Home :

The church was in the house of Aquila and Priscilla, in the tent of Abraham, and in the palace of David. It must be in every Christian home, and every Christian home must be in the church. In a word, our families must be churchly .

Characteristic of a church; churchy.