indigest

adj, noun, verb — 2 senses

indigest

adj

Etymology From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).

1

Obsolete Crude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.

  • To fortify the most indigest and crude stomach, ay, were it of one that, through extreme weakness, vomited blood, applying only a warm napkin to the place, after the unction and fricace1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
  • [M]onsters and things indigest […]1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 114”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
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  • Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus expreſt, / To be a Chaos rude and indigeſt: […]1613, William Browne, “The Third Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 46:
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indigestly

indigest

noun

Etymology From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).

1

Rare Something indigested; a crude mass, or disordered state of affairs.

  • Be of good comfort (Prince) for you are borne To ſet a forme vpon that indigeſtc. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
  • The other, more compendious as well as mischievous class of errors, are those indigests of grammar, […]1805, E. H. Seymour, Remarks […] upon the plays of Shakespeare, London, page 3:
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  • Begotten from greedy indigests of pride which rotted inside1965, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre, Tiger of time, and other poems, New York: Trident Press, page 56:

indigest

verb

Etymology From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).

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