Careful Words

fitting (n.)

fitting (adj.)

  If I have done well, and as is fitting, . . . it is that which I desired; but if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.

Old Testament: 2 Maccabees xv. 38.

  Observe moderation. In all, the fitting season is best.

Hesiod (Circa 720 (?) b c): Works and Days. Line 694.