indigested

English

Etymology

in- +‎ digested

Adjective

indigested (comparative more indigested, superlative most indigested)

  1. Not digested; undigested.
    • Dryden
      Indigested food.
  2. Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude.
    an indigested array of facts
    • 1697, Virgil; John Dryden, transl., “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in The Works of Virgil: […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, lines 252–255, page 441:
      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!
    • Burke
      In hot reformations […] the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested.
    • South
      This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.
  3. Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.
  4. (medicine, obsolete) Of wounds: not in a state suitable for healing; (specifically) of an abscess or its contents: not ripened or suppurated.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for indigested in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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