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▪ I. † indiˈgest, a. (n.) Obs.
Also 5–6 Sc. -de-.
[ad. L. indigest-us unarranged, confused, not digested, f. in- (in-3) + dīgest-us, pa. pple. of dīgerĕre to digest. Cf. F. indigeste (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Undigested; crude, immature; shapeless, confused; unarranged.
(Often with reference to Ovid's Quem dixere chaos, rudis indigestaque moles, Met. i. 7.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxiv. (Addit. MS. 27944) lf. 228/1 Fruyt is first grene and indigest..but þe vtter hete comforteþ þe Inner hete, and makiþ digestioun in the soure humour, and dissolueth it. 1538Starkey England ii. i. 154 Correctyon of corrupt and indygest humorys ys the chefe poynt. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 133 Then the personis fornamed heard weaping and, as it war ane indigest sound, as it war of prayeris, in the which he continewed neyre ane hour. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii. (R.), Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus exprest, To be a chaos rude and indigest. 1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 257 The somewhat rude and indigest mass of his materials. 1806Ibid. IV. 884 The lump of indigest materials industriously provided by a man of letters for the purpose of drawing up a book.
b. fig. Of persons: Immature; of crude or hasty character.
1423Jas. I Kingis Q. xiv, Though [sely] ȝouth of nature Indegest, Vnrypit fruyte with windis variable. 1513Douglas æneis xi. vii. 104 A man nocht indegest, bot wys and cald.
B. n. A shapeless mass.
1595Shakes. John v. vii. 26 You are borne To set a forme vpon that indigest, Which he hath left so shapelesse and so rude.
▪ II. indiˈgest, v. (trivial.)
[f. in-3 + digest v. after indigestion.]
a. trans. To fail to digest.
1814Byron Let. to Moore 9 Apr., Which I swallowed for supper, and indigested for I don't know how long. 1882Three in Norway p. xii, One of those people who never indigest anything, but always look, and always are, in perfect health and spirits. 1938S. Beckett Murphy 81 On this part of himself that I am about to indigest may the Lord have mercy.
b. intr. To fail to digest; to fail to be digested.
1857Mrs. Gaskell Let. Dec. (1966) 489, I don't see exactly what you do in America. You indigest, all of you, and some of you make money at a great rate. 1863Sala Capt. Dangerous II. ix. 299 He breakfasted very heartily of Minced Veal, which he hoped would not indigest. 1954W. Faulkner Fable 337 ‘Then we will starve,’ the first said. ‘Or indigest,’ the third said. |