indigested

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10
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/ˌɪndɪˈd͡ʒɛstɪd/

Definition of indigested

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; unmethodical, crude.
    “This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.”
    “See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air!”
    “[A] Writers Stomach, Appetite, and Victuals, may be judg'd from his Method, Stile, and Subject, as certainly as if you were his Meſs-fellow, and ſat at Table with him. Hence we call a Subject dry, a Writer inſipid, Notions crude, and indigeſted, a Pamphlet empty or hungry, a Stile jejune, and many ſuch like Expreſſions, plainly alluding to the Diet of an Author, and I make no manner of doubt but Tully [i.e., Cicero] grounded that ſaying of Helluo Librorum upon the ſame Obſervation.”
    “[T]hey were obliged to dispatch their Pictures as fast they could in order to receive the cash so that their first Pictures which were exposed and by which their reputation was to stand or fall were slight indigested and incorrect things[.]”
    “In hot reformations […] the whole is generally so crude, so harsh, and so indigested.”
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adj

  1. (archaic)Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; unmethodical, crude.
    “This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.”
    “See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air!”
    “[A] Writers Stomach, Appetite, and Victuals, may be judg'd from his Method, Stile, and Subject, as certainly as if you were his Meſs-fellow, and ſat at Table with him. Hence we call a Subject dry, a Writer inſipid, Notions crude, and indigeſted, a Pamphlet empty or hungry, a Stile jejune, and many ſuch like Expreſſions, plainly alluding to the Diet of an Author, and I make no manner of doubt but Tully [i.e., Cicero] grounded that ſaying of Helluo Librorum upon the ſame Obſervation.”
    “[T]hey were obliged to dispatch their Pictures as fast they could in order to receive the cash so that their first Pictures which were exposed and by which their reputation was to stand or fall were slight indigested and incorrect things[.]”
    “In hot reformations […] the whole is generally so crude, so harsh, and so indigested.”
  2. Not digested in the stomach; undigested.
    “Indigested food.”
  3. (obsolete)Of wounds: not in a state suitable for healing; (specifically) of an abscess or its contents: not ripened or suppurated.

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Etymology

From in- + digested.

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