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indigested, a.|ɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪd|
[f. indigest a. + -ed1, or f. in-3 + digested ppl. a.]
Not digested; undigested.
1. Not ordered or arranged; without form or arrangement of parts; shapeless, unformed, chaotic.
(Often in expressions echoing Ovid's description of chaos: see indigest a.)
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 157 Hence heape of wrath, foule indigested lumpe, As crooked in thy manners, as thy shape. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 7 A rude and indigested Chaos, or confusion of matters. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. ii. 295 The remaining indigested parts of Nature. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 289 A rude and indigested lump of Atoms. a1794Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) I. 42–3 The only principle that darted a ray of light into the indigested chaos. 1884Church Bacon viii. 193 Half his time was spent in collecting huge masses of indigested facts.
fig.1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1736) IV. 175 Boys of the same Age appear crude, indigested, devoted only to Rudeness and Play.
b. Not ordered in the mind; not thought out; ill-considered.
1587Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 448 Rude and indigested platforms..tending not to the reformation, but to the destruction of the church of England. 1667Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 159, I send you notwithstanding these indigested thoughts, and that attempt upon Cicero, which you enjoined me. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. i, The wild and indigested Notion of raising my Fortune. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) II. xliv. 328 Forgive these indigested self-reasonings. 1867Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 177 This is not a fair or clear judgment: it is indigested and violent and deformed in expression.
2. That has not undergone digestion in the stomach.
1620Venner Via Recta viii. 186 Causing the meat to passe from the stomacke indigested. 1702Aristotle's Sec. Secr. 58 The Stomach cannot digest the Food, but it remains an indigested Nutriment. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 126 Morsels of indigested fruit.
fig.1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy iii. 257 Repentance is the weight Of indigested meals ta'en yesterday.
†b. Suffering from indigestion. Obs.
1663P. Henry Diary (1882) 141 Preacht in the aftern. indigested.
†3. Not purified or rectified by heat; crude, raw.
1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 7 That it [the air] be not indigested for want of Sun.
†4. ‘Not brought to suppuration’ (J.). Obs.
1676Wiseman Surgery (J.), His wound was indigested and inflamed.
Hence indiˈgestedness, undigested condition.
1682Burnet Life Hale (R.), They looked on the Common Law as a study that could not be..formed into a rational science by reason of the indigestedness of it. |