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indigestible, a. (n.)|ɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪb(ə)l|
[ad. L. indīgestibilis, f. in- (in-3) + dīgestibilis digestible.]
Incapable of being digested, or difficult to digest; not easily assimilated as food.
1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. G b, Wheate sodde is heuy meate and indigestable. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxii. 165 To reduce that indigestible substance into such a forme as may..enter the cavities, and lesse accessible parts of the body, without corrosion. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VI. 111 Among the ancients the goose was abstained from as totally indigestible. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 106 Woody fibre appears to be an indigestible substance. 1896Amer. Ann. Deaf Feb. 73 If you give him his [mental] food in an indigestible and unpalatable form, you take away all his interest in his work.
fig. and transf.1603Florio Montaigne i. lvi. (1632) 173 They present us with the state of an indigestible agonie. 1625Purchas Pilgrims IV. 1808 Out of the indigestable malice that he had conceiued against Biencourt. 1873M. E. Braddon L. Davoren I. Prol. 6 It's rather a pity that one's friends are reported to be indigestible. 1898Ld. Curzon in Daily News 8 Nov. 6/4 He had utilised his time at home by placing a number of solid and thoroughly indigestible volumes upon the library shelves.
B. as n. An indigestible substance.
1841Brande Chem. 1410 Hair, feathers, the shells of insects..belong to the class of absolute indigestibles.
Hence indiˈgestibleness, the quality of being indigestible; also † inability to digest (obs.).
1626Donne Serm. iv. 38 Our stomachs are dead in an indigestiblenesse, our feete dead in a lamenesse [etc.]. 1727Bailey vol. II, Indigestibleness, uncapableness of being digested. Mod. Things to be avoided on account of their indigestibleness.
Add: indiˈgestibly adv.
1848Webster, Indigestibly. 1977Economist 15 Oct. 121/1 Amid the swathes of minutely detailed financial transactions, indigestibly packaged, is a view of what made Slater, Walker tick. |