sippingly

comparative more sippingly · superlative most sippingly

1. With sips.

   Because there is nothing sottish about you; and you throw down your wine like a man that wants to get a certain quantity down in order to drown care, and not like one who drinks it because he likes the taste of it,—that is, slowly and sippingly.

   1816, [Amelia] Opie, chapter I, in Valentine’s Eve, volume II, Boston, Mass.: Wells and Lilly; Philadelphia, Pa.: M. Carey, pages 4–5

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   I have long observed, as I doubt not have many of you, that the condition here described is often alleviated in the most striking manner by the use of exclusively liquid nourishment—such as milk or milk-gruel, given in small portions sub-continuously, or sippingly, as it were, throughout the waking hours—the patient being never permitted to take a distinct meal, nor a particle of solid food.

   1880, W[illia]m Roberts, “Lecture III”, in On the Digestive Ferments and the Preparation and Use of Artificially Digested Food; Being the Lumleian Lectures for the Year 1880. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians., London: Smith, Elder, & Co.; Manchester: J. E. Cornish, page 106

   He might ignore it for three months and then, one midnight, drink sippingly and methodically from a water glass, lying back on the cot an hour later with the world all closed down, nothing left of it but a terminal throbbing ache in his forebrain.

   2011, Don DeLillo, “The Starveling”, in Granta: The Magazine of New Writing, number 117, Granta Publications, →ISBN