adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a lumpish manner; heavily and clumsily; † dejectedly; stupidly; sluggishly (obs.).

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c. 1430.  Stans Puer ad Mensam, 16, in Babees Bk. Lumpischli caste not þin heed a-doun.

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1583.  Golding, Calvin on Deut., lxxxviii. 543. Let vs looke that wee knowe Gods trueth aforehand … for without that wee shall goe lumpishly to worke.

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a. 1652.  Brome, Eng. Moor, I. iii. Wks. 1873, II. 12. ’Tis your sullenness; Would you have brided it so lumpishly With your spruce younker?

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1860.  Hawthorne, Marb. Faun, II. vi. 81. She sought … to relieve his heart of the burden that lay lumpishly upon it.

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1862.  Macm. Mag., Sept., 424. The dark outline of the summit peaked or lumpishly rounded.

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1890.  W. Clark Russell, Ocean Trag., II. xxi. 180. Bodies of vapour coming together over our mastheads, and compacting there lumpishly amid the stagnant air.

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