indigested

[ in-di-jes-tid, -dahy- ]

adjective

1. without arrangement or order.
2. unformed or shapeless.
3. not digested; undigested.
4. not duly considered.

indigested

/ ˌɪndɪˈdʒɛstɪd /

adjective

1. archaic.
   undigested

Word History and Origins

Origin of indigested¹

First recorded in 1585–95; in- ³ + digest ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Holland, that scarce deserves the name of land, As but the off-scouring of the British sand; And so much earth as was contributed By English pilots when they heaved the lead; Or what by the ocean's slow alluvion fell,5 Of shipwrecked cockle and the mussel-shell; This indigested vomit of the sea Fell to the Dutch by just propriety.

From Project Gutenberg

All the indigested notions of painting which I had brought with me from England, where the art was at the lowest ebb,—it could not, indeed, be lower,—were to be totally done away with and eradicated from my mind.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be proper to employ a mild and relaxing emetic if the patient be seen at the onset of the disease and if there is reason to suspect the presence of indigested food in the stomach, but under any other circumstances there seems no reason for its use in a disease where vomiting is so common and gastric irritability one of the most troublesome symptoms.

From Project Gutenberg

We should in Cases of this Sort, excite and revive the Patients as in the former, by making them receive some very strong Smell, of whatever Kind is at hand; but the most essential Point is to make them swallow down a large Quantity of light warm Fluid; which may serve to drown, as it were, the indigested Matter; which may soften its Acrimony; and either effect the Discharge of it by vomiting, or force it down into the Chanel of the Intestines.

From Project Gutenberg

But at the same Time if we were not to retrench from the Quantity, nor somewhat to vary the Quality of their usual Food in a State of Health; as there is not the least Digestion made in the Stomach, during the whole Term of the Fit; and as the Stomach is always weakened a little by the Disease, crude and indigested Humours would be produced, which might afford a Fuel to the Disease.

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