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indigestive, a.|ɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪv|
[f. in-3 + digestive; cf. obs. F. indigestif (Godef.).]
1. Characterized by or suffering from indigestion; tending to indigestion; dyspeptic.
1632Sherwood, Indigestiue, indigeste. 1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1694) 208 To shave off the foreign Ferment from your crude and Indigestive Ventricle. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. xxv, She was a cousin, an indigestive single woman. 1870― E. Drood x, Disturbed from an indigestive after-dinner sleep.
†2. Not ready to ‘digest’ or brook offences. Obs. (Cf. digest v. 6.)
1670Cotton Espernon iii. xi. 560 To which indigestive humour of his, his Animosity..being every day exasperated more and more by new Provocations; he, in the end, was no longer able so to conquer his passion. |