indigestedadj.
/ɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪd/ Not digested; undigested.† 3. Not purified or rectified by heat; crude, raw.† 4. ‘Not brought to suppuration’ (Johnson). Obsolete.
1. figurative.1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe II. 206 Boys of the same Age appear crude, indigested, devoted only to rudeness and play.
a. Not ordered or arranged; without form or arrangement of parts; shapeless, unformed, chaotic.Often in expressions echoing Ovid's description of chaos: see indigest adj.
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the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective] > unformed or not shaped
unformeda1340
unshapenc1350
unfashioned1538
unshaped1572
informed?1609
indigested1613
unmoulded1620
ineffigiate1657
unacted1700
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > not put in order
indigest1398
unordereda1500
undressed1530
undight1555
indisposed1598
undigested1598
indigested1613
unset1631
unranged1633
unadjusted1775
unarranged1791
unsystematized1832
uncatalogued1837
unassorted1865
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 7 A rude and indigested Chaos, or confusion of matters.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. i. 155 Hence heape of wrath, foule indigested lumpe, As crooked in thy manners, as thy shape. View more context for this quotation
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. ii. 295 The remaining indigested parts of Nature.
1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. viii. 32 A rude and indigested Lump of Atoms.
a1794 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) I. 42–3 The only principle that darted a ray of light into the indigested chaos.
1884 R. W. Church Bacon viii. 193 Half his time was spent in collecting huge masses of indigested facts.
b. Not ordered in the mind; not thought out; ill-considered.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [adjective]
foolisha1382
misadvisedc1390
unwise1390
indiscreet1413
misdeeming?1471
indigested1587
misjudging1598
unjudicial1599
unjudicious1611
unjudging1612
unjudiciallya1628
injudicious1649
ill-judginga1684
miscalculating1827
foot-shooting1984
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless or thoughtless > of actions
undeliveredc1425
inconsideratec1460
undeliberatea1525
unweigheda1586
indigested1587
inconsidereda1631
inconsult1652
indeliberate1655
indeliberated1656
inconsiderative1684
undeliberated1703
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature > of products of the mind
indigested1587
crude1611
undigested1655
unelaborated1850
1587 Will of Abp. E. Sandys in Serm. (1841) Misc. 448 Rude and indigested platforms..tending not to the reformation, but to the destruction of the church of England.
1667 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 159 I send you notwithstanding these indigested thoughts, and that attempt upon Cicero, which you enjoined me.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 17 The wild and indigested Notion of raising my Fortune.
1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xlii. 291 Forgive these indigested self-reasonings.
1867 A. C. Swinburne in Fortn. Rev. Oct. 442 This is not a fair or clear judgment: it is indigested and violent and deformed in expression.
2. figurative.1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy iii. 240 Repentance is the weight Of indigested meals eat yesterday.† b. Suffering from indigestion. Obsolete.
a. That has not undergone digestion in the stomach.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [adjective] > digested > undigested
undefied1398
undigest1398
crude1533
raw1533
undecoct1542
undigested1598
hard1601
inconcocted1605
unconcoct1605
unconcocted1611
indigested1620
untempered1822
1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 186 Causing the meat to passe from the stomacke indigested.
1702 Aristotle's Sec. Secr. 58 The Stomach cannot digest the Food, but it remains an indigested Nutriment.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 132 Morsels of indigested fruit.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [adjective] > having indigestion
raw1540
raw stomached1591
crude1607
indigestive1632
indigested1663
undigesting1725
dyspeptic1809
dyspeptical1831
bradypeptic1879
1663 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 141 Preacht in the aftern. indigested.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature > not matured by some (natural) process
unripec1275
undigest1398
undigested1528
inconcoct1596
uncocted1601
inconcocted1605
inelaborated1623
indigested1624
incocted1645
unconcocted1649
incoctile1684
1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 7 That it [the air] be not indigested for want of Sun.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > qualities of wound
openOE
greenc1325
compound cystc1400
composed?1541
cursed1565
undressed1598
stale1607
untenteda1616
ripening1622
stabbed1653
indigested1676
complicated fracture1745
stanchless1820
unstanched1826
uncicatrized1839
punched out1869
toxicotraumatic1899
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. i. 346 His Wound was indigested and inflamed.
Derivatives
indiˈgestedness n. undigested condition.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [noun] > state of being unorganized > state of not being systematized or methodized
immethodicalness1661
indigestedness1682
1682 Bp. G. Burnet Life Hale 120 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.
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