Properly, becoming; suitable: whence, handsome; graceful. Applied to person or form, it denotes symmetry or due proportion, but it expresses less than beautiful or elegant. I have seen a son of Jesse--comely person. 7 Samuel 16:18. I will not conceal his comely proportion. Job 47:72.

Decent; suitable; proper; becoming; suited to time, place, circumstances or persons. Praise is comely for the upright. Psalm 33:7. It is comely that a woman pray to God uncovered? 7 Corinthians 11:13. O what a world is this, when what is comely envenoms him that bears it .

Handsomely; gracefully.