comely: [13] Old English had an adjective cymlic ‘beautiful’ (no relation at all to come), but this seems to have died out around the year 1000, and it is likely that comely, which first appears in the early 13th century, represents a reduced version of becomely, an adjective long since defunct of which there are a few records towards the end of the 12th century. This meant ‘suitable, becoming’ (it was formed, of course, from the verb become), an early meaning of comely; its other semantic strand, ‘beautiful’, is probably a memory of Old English cymlic. => become
comely (adj.)
"beautiful, handsome," c. 1400, probably from Old English cymlic "lovely, splendid, finely made," from cyme "exquisite, glorious, delicate," from West Germanic *kumi- "delicate, feeble" (cognates: Old High German chumo "with difficulty," chumig "weak, delicate;" German kaum "hardly, scarcely"). Or perhaps the modern word is from Middle English bicumelic (c. 1200) "suitable, exquisite," literally "becomely" (compare becoming).
例文
1. His wife is a comely young woman.
彼の妻は美しい未亡人だった。
2.A nervous, comely -dressed little girl steped out.
緊張して身なりのきれいな女の子が立ってきた。
3.She bloomed herself，and was a comely ，comfortable，reasonable woman.
彼女自身もふくよかになり、容貌が心地よく、筋の通った女だった。
4.Such a fear also troubled the comely head of Mme.Chiang kai-shek.
という恐怖も、チャン介石夫人のスマートな頭をしばらく不安にさせた。
5.All were at least comely ，and one of them very handsome and regular of feature.