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undiˈgested, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not brought to a mature or proper condition by natural physical change.
1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. b j b, Fleme is vndigested bloudde. Ibid. B iv b, The vndigested & rawe humours are y⊇ cause of opilations. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 201 When we behold the sunne through thicke clouds and undigested vapors, we see it not cleere. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 168 Vpon Mount Taurus, where wee exposed our heated bodies to vndigested vapours which easily penetrated vs. 1700Blackmore Job 10 Deform'd he lay, disfigur'd, cover'd o'er With running boyls and undigested gore. 1738Gray Tasso 58 Further they pass, where ripening minerals flow, And embryon metals undigested glow.
2. Of food, etc.: Not digested in the stomach.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 27 b/2 When as the stomacke is burthened with anye cruditye of vndigested meat or drincke. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 166 It is the hurtfullest thing to the body, to ingest meat vpon meat vndigested. 1693Dryden, etc. Juvenal iv. (1697) 60 Thy own third Story smoaks, while thou, supine, Art drench'd in Fumes of undigested Wine. 1808Med. Jrnl. XIX. 22 She then took an emetic, which brought up some green undigested stuff. 1892H. Lane Differ. Rheum. Dis. (ed. 2) 87 Undigested food giving rise to acute gastritis.
fig.c1610Women Saints 122 Verie bitter speaches..such as swelling and vndigested discord is wonte to belke oute. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 460 His reading, too, though undigested, was of immense extent. 1890Daily News 2 June 5/5 Trusts have found favour with the public, and have relieved financiers of much undigested stock.
3. Not reduced to order or harmony; not properly arranged or regulated; chaotic; confused.
1598Florio, Indigésto, vndigested, vnpollished. 1621Sandys tr. Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 1 One face had Nature, which they Chaos nam'd: An vndigested lump. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. i. xxxix, When that great Power..Brought into act this undigested Ball. 1665in Surtees Misc. (1860) 263 The Treasury and Registry are undigested into order. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 1 One dull unvaried face Of matter undigested. 1884Manch. Exam. 17 Sept. 4/6 A crude and undigested mass of useless rubbish.
b. Of discourse, ideas, etc.
1655Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 282 Thus haue I made you a most broken vndigiested discourse. 1692Washington tr. Milton's Def. People Pref., M.'s Wks. 1851 VIII. 11 The undigested and immethodical bulk of his Book. 1742West Let. in Gray's Poems (1775) 147 At least a volume of undigested observations. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 35 What signifies their sputtering out a few hasty and undigested invectives? 1839Hallam Lit. Eur. ii. i. II. 35 note, The whole was published in an undigested, incoherent, and some-times self-contradictory paragraph. |