sippingly

Adverb

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
   • 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...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...