| 单词 | hard of digestion | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashard of digestion  e.   slow of digestion,  easy of digestion,  hard of digestion: slow, easy, hard to be digested. So  of hard (etc.) digestion: cf.  4. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1539    T. Elyot Castel of Helthe 		(new ed.)	  ii. xiii. 31 b  				It is slowe of digestion. 1599    H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. M8v  				Oyster..somewhat hard of degestion. 1653    H. Holcroft tr.  Procopius Persian Wars  ii. 64 in  tr.  Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian  				Their laws hard of disgestion, and their commands intollerable. 1699    Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles 		(1700)	 ix. 116  				A Doctrine that seems to be of hard digestion to a great many. a1715    Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time 		(1724)	 I. 320  				These conditions were not of an easy digestion. 1732    J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 253  				Flesh roasted..not so easy of Digestion as boil'd. 1761    D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 200  				These points were of hard digestion with the princess. 1838    Penny Cycl. X. 343  				Mucus..is deemed both nutritious and of easy digestion. 1863–72    H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 327  				Raw flesh is generally regarded as more difficult of digestion than boiled or roast meat. < as lemmas  | 
	
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