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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Decently:

de'-sent-li (euschemonos): Only once is this word found in our English Bible (1Co 14:40). It is in the last verse of that remarkable chapter on the proper use of spiritual gifts in the church and the proper conduct of public worship. It does not refer here to absence of impurity or obscenity. It rather refers to good order in the conduct of public worship. All things that are done and said in public worship are to be in harmony with that becoming and reverent spirit and tone that befit the true worshippers of God.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Decently:

denotes "gracefully, becomingly, in a seemly manner" (eu, "well," schema, "a form, figure"); "honestly," in Rom 13:13 (marg., "decently"), in contrast to the shamefulness of Gentile social life; in 1Th 4:12, the contrast is to idleness and its concomitant evils and the resulting bad testimony to unbelievers; in 1Cr 14:40, "decently," where the contrast is to disorder in oral testimony in the churches.
See HONESTLY.

Note: Cp. euschemosune, "comeliness," 1Cr 12:23, and euschemon, "comely, honorable."
See COMELY.