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lumpishness|ˈlʌmpɪʃnɪs|
[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.
1574Newton Health Mag. 17 An ill diet bringeth heaviness and drowsie lumpishness to the bodie. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones ii. 174 Take from me ydlenesse and sloth, and heauie lumpishnesse. 1638A. Read Chirurg. xvi. 117 A purgative medicament is to bee ministred..if the party have the headache or lumpishnesse. 1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magic v. ii. 163 When the Lead hath lost its own earthy lumpishness, which is expelled by often melting. 1727Bailey vol. II, Lumpishness, a being in lumps; also dulness, heaviness. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. I. iv. 65 His apparently indolent yet active lumpishness. 1848Rickman Archit. App. 42 The chapels and aisle surrounding these apses, tends very much..to give that lumpishness mentioned above. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. iv. 49 No dead stuff, no longer any afflicting lumpishness. His brain was vivifying light. |