timelyadj/ˈtaɪm.li/

• 1

  Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt.

  • If the whistleblower submitted a timely response, pursuant to Step 9, the Claims Review Staff will consider the issues, along with any supporting documentation, and make its Proposed Final Determination.
• 2

  Happening or appearing at the proper time.

  • […] and the timely dew of sleep, / Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines / Our eye-lids […]
  • There are people, I know, to be found, / ⁠Who say and apparently think / That sorrow and care may be drowned / By a timely consumption of drink.
• 3

  obsoleteKeeping time or measure.

  • High lifted up were many loftie towres, / And goodly galleries farre over laid, / Full of faire windowes and delightful bowres; / And on the top a Diall told the timely howres.

timelyadv/ˈtaɪm.li/

• 1

  archaicIn good time; early, quickly.

  • If I had been born more timely, he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different.
• 2

  obsoleteAt the right time; seasonably.

  • And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted.
• 3

  lawIn compliance with applicable time limits.

  • On May 14, 1997, the jury convicted the defendant, who currently is serving a fifteen-month sentence. The defendant timely appeals.
  • […] § 2255's one-year limitation period starts to run when the time for seeking such review expires. Under this rule, Clay's § 2255 petition was timely filed.