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单词 indigestible
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indigestibleadj.n.

/ɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪb(ə)l/
Etymology: < Latin indīgestibilis, < in- (in- prefix4) + dīgestibilis digestible adj.
A. adj.
Incapable of being digested, or difficult to digest; not easily assimilated as food.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > indigestible
strong?a1425
indigestible1528
indigerable1599
undigestible1611
incocted1645
inconvertible1646
incoctible1684
dyspeptic1694
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. G b Wheate sodde is heuy meate and indigestable.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 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. View more context for this quotation
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 111 Among the ancients; the goose was abstained from as totally indigestible.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. iii. 93 Woody fibre appears to be an indigestible substance.
1896 Amer. 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.
figurative and in extended use.1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. lvi. 173 They present vs with the state of an indigestible agonie.1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes IV. 1808 Out of the indigestable malice that he had conceiued against Biencourt.1873 M. E. Braddon Lucius Davoren I. Prol. 6 It's rather a pity that one's friends are reported to be indigestible.1898 Ld. 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. n.
as An indigestible substance.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > indigestibility > indigestible substance
indigestible1841
1841 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. 1410 Hair, feathers, the shells of insects..belong to the class of absolute indigestibles.

Derivatives

indiˈgestibleness n. the quality of being indigestible; also †inability to digest (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > indigestibility
indigestiblenessa1631
indigestibility1847
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > indigestion
cardiac passiona1398
rawnessa1398
heartburnc1440
rawhead1440
heart-burningc1450
undigestionc1450
indigestion1495
crudeness1541
crudity1541
bradypepsy1605
predigestion1612
heart-scald1628
indigestiblenessa1631
dyspepsy1656
unconcoction1662
apepsy1678
incoction1684
soda1693
dyspepsia1706
cardialgia1710
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 298 Our stomach dead in an indigestiblenesse; our feete dead in a lamenesse.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Indigestibleness, uncapableness of being digested.
1900 N.E.D. at Indigestible Mod. Things to be avoided on account of their indigestibleness.

Draft additions 1993

indiˈgestibly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adverb] > promoting digestion > not
indigestibly1848
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [adverb]
inscrutably1597
unknownly1611
inaccessibly1621
over a person's heada1626
unconceivably1630
indiscernibly1636
unintelligibly1664
unimaginably1666
unsearchably1706
impenetrably1759
unfathomablya1822
unrecognizably1836
incomprehensibly1863
untraceably1875
indigestibly1977
1848 N. Webster Indigestibly.
1977 Economist 15 Oct. 121/1 Amid the swathes of minutely detailed financial transactions, indigestibly packaged, is a view of what made Slater, Walker tick.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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