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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
properly
adv
  1. in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"
    Synonym(s): properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right way
    Antonym(s): improperly
  2. with reason or justice
    Synonym(s): by rights, properly
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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