adv. Obs. rare. Also 5 sumwhatly, svmqwatly. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] Somewhat; to some (slight) extent.
c. 1425. St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck, in Anglia, VIII. 108. A whyte lynnen garnemente sumwhatly trailynge on þe erthe. Ibid., 115. Sumwhatly streight vp towarde the auter.
1483. Cath. Angl., 371. Svmqwatly, aliqualiter, vtrumque.
[a. 1711. H. Lamp, Autobiog., iii. (1895), 26. I staid there about six months, learning the English tongue somewhatly.]
