[Connected with JUMP v.5.]
A. adj. Coinciding, exactly agreeing; even; exact, precise.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxx. (1887), 110. When … some parte therof wanteth his due forme, his iumpe quantitie, his iust number, his naturall seat.
1584. Lyly, Campaspe, I. iii. Cris. Thou thinkest it a grace to be opposite against Alexander. Diog. And thou to be jump with Alexander.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. Wks. 1724, II. 714. Jump concord between our wit and will.
1622. Fletcher, Prophetess, I. iii. They are as jump and squar’d out to his nature.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Underwoods, Execr. Vulcan. Acrostichs, and Telestichs, on jump Names.
1828. Craven Dial., Jump, short, compact.
† B. adv. With exact coincidence or agreement; exactly, precisely. Obs.
1539. Taverner, Erasm. Prov. (1545), 36. Sure I am, that men of oure tyme kepe this sayenge so iompe.
1570. B. Googe, Pop. Kingd., II. 20 b. In this they all do iumpe agree.
1574. J. Studley, trans. Bale’s Pageant Popes, III. 43. Ye shall finde it also make iump six hundred sixty sixe.
1579. Twyne, Phisicke agst. Fort., I. xxiv. 33 a. Thou art iumpe of mine opinion.
1589. R. Harvey, Pl. Perc. (1590), 21. Meete halfe way, and I standing iump in the middle will crie aime to you both.
1602. Shaks., Ham., V. ii. 386. But since so iumpe vpon this bloodie question, You from the Polake warres, and you from England Are heere arriued.
1615. W. Lawson, Orch. & Gard., III. x. (1668), 29. Make your graft agree jump with the cyon.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann., III. (1658), 13. The time of this Belus … falls in jump with the age of this Amenophis.
Hence † Jumply adv., coincidently, accordantly; exactly, precisely. † Jumpness, evenness, fitness.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, V. (1622), 450. My meeting so iumply with them, makes mee abashed.
1604. Pricket, Honors Fame (1881), 12. Then in that time an vndermining wit, Did closly frame all actions iumply fit.
c. 1640. J. Smyth, Lives Berkeleys (1883), I. 64. Age, time, place,… and other circumstances so iumply occurre.
1611. Cotgr., Justesse, iustnesse, iumpnesse, euennesse.
