Middle English Dictionary Entry
dullī adv.
Entry Info
| Forms | dullī adv. Also -liche. |
| Etymology | From dul . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Dully; -- of sounding or shining; (b) slowly, sluggishly; gradually, insensibly.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)73a/a : A malle to smyte byhynde þe lenticuler..oweþ to be of lede..þat it..sowne obstupely i. dully [*Ch.(2): þe more derkely; L magis obtuse].
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Hrl 1766)9.3400 : I hadde no..othir colours..Sauff whyte and blak; and they but dully shine.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)36a/b : Often tymez it [nonulcerous cancer] bigynneþ blontly or dully [*Ch.(2): dulliche; L obtuse] after quantite of a cheche or..bene so þat vnneþe it is knowen.
- a1475 Rev.St.Bridget(3) (Gar 145)35/35 : Ofte sythes a good werke is doo wyth an vndyscrete entente and wyth an vnavysed herte, and þer-fore it goth dolly and slawly forth.