[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being lumpish; cumbrous heaviness; heavy and clumsy aspect; † sluggishness, drowsy inactivity, heaviness of heart (obs.); rarely, lumpiness.
1574. Newton, Health Mag., 17. An ill diet bringeth heaviness and drowsie lumpishness to the bodie.
1582. Bentley, Mon. Matrones, II. 174. Take from me ydlenesse and sloth, and heauie lumpishnesse.
1638. A. Read, Chirurg., xvi. 117. A purgative medicament is to bee ministred … if the party have the headache or lumpishnesse.
1658. trans. Porta’s Nat. Magic, V. ii. 163. When the Lead hath lost its own earthy lumpishness, which is expelled by often melting.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Lumpishness, a being in lumps; also dulness, heaviness.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., I. iv. 65. His apparently indolent yet active lumpishness.
1848. Rickman, Archit., App. 42. The chapels and aisle surrounding these apses, tends very much … to give that lumpishness mentioned above.
1880. G. Meredith, Tragic Com., iv. 49. No dead stuff, no longer any afflicting lumpishness. His brain was vivifying light.
