dysˈpeptically,adv. [f.prec. + -ly2.] In a dyspeptic manner (lit. and fig.). a1859De Quincey Posth.Wks. (1893) II. iv. 102 A man..dyspeptically incapable of command at forty-two.1866Dickens in J. Forster Life viii. vii. 354 Half strangled with my cold, and dyspeptically gloomy and dull.