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indigestion|ɪndɪˈdʒɛstjən|
Also 7 indisgestion.
[a. F. indigestion (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. indīgestiōn-em, f. in- (in-3) + dīgestiōn-em digestion.]
1. Want of digestion; incapacity of or difficulty in digesting food.
1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 30 They fele some tyme a maner of payne in the stomacke or in the hed, for lacke of sleape or indygestyon. 1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. v. xlii. (W. de W.) 159 By scarsyte of vse of mete and indygestion a gloten desyreth indygeste superfluyte of mete. 1601Holland Pliny II. Explan. Words, Indigestion, want of concoction and digestion, by which means many crudities and raw humors are ingendered. 1611Cotgr., Indigestion, indisgestion, want of disgestion. a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 2 Which manner of diet for the indisgestion Mr. Hobbes himself doth much dislike. c1750Shenstone Ruined Abbey 82 Wks. 1764 I. 310 The trivial pain Of transient indigestion. 1858–65Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xi. viii. (1872) IV. 97 ‘His Imperial Majesty felt slightly indisposed’—indigestion of mushrooms or whatever it was. 1880Beale Slight Ailm. 84 Indigestion is learnedly spoken of as dyspepsia. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 402 Indigestion of amylaceous food leads to the same [acid dyspepsia].
fig.1824Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 306 The uncertainty of our future plans, gives me a sort of indigestion of mind which quite disturbs its tranquillity. 1891Spectator 5 Sept., We have eaten so much territory in the decade, that if we do not take care, we shall have indigestion. 1894Outing (U.S.) XXIV. 185/1, I wonder the mixture didn't give him moral indigestion.
b. with pl. A case or attack of indigestion.
1702J. Purcell Cholick (1714) 147 The Cure of the Cholick occasion'd by Crudities and Indigestions of an Acid Nature. 1798Malthus Popul. (1878) 22 The disorders arising from indigestions. 1845James A. Neil ii, You will give me an indigestion.
2. Undigested condition; the state of not being reduced to order or brought to maturity; disorder, imperfection. Also, an instance of this condition.
1656Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. §38 (1851) 45 In this man's country..our whiteness would pass..for an unpleasing indigestion of form. 1870Lowell Study Wind. 5 Leading him to dwell rather upon the indigestions of the elements than his own.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1861Illustr. Lond. News 25 May 485/1 Eschewing all indigestion-creating..delicacies. 1897Westm. Gaz. 2 Dec. 3/2 What with the skate and the cycle, liver pills and indigestion syrups should soon vanish from the land. |