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.
Happening or appearing at the proper time.
[…] and the timely dew of sleep, / Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines / Our eye-lids […]
Keeping 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.
In 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.
From Middle English timely, tymely, timliche, from Old English *tīmlīc (adjective) and tīmlīċe (“in good time; timely; soon”, adverb), equivalent to time + -ly. Cognate with Danish timelig, Swedish ti...
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At 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.
In 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.