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adjective

Indigested adj.

Not digested; undigested. "Indigested food."

Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts. "In hot reformations... the whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested." "This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time."

(Med.)

(a)

Not in a state suitable for healing; said of wounds.

(b)

Not ripened or suppurated; said of an abscess or its contents.

Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.

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Etymology of 'Indigested'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Indigested" Quotes from Famous Books

... and frequent ineffectual efforts to discharge the contents of the rectum, owing to pain of the sphincter. The pain is produced by indurated feces, or by some acrid material, as the acidity of indigested aliment; and the efforts are attended with mucus from the pained membrane. The feces must sometimes be taken away by the end of a marrow-spoon, as cathartics and even clyster will pass without removing them. It is sometimes caused by sympathy with the urethra, when there ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... be offended, Lucius, at the way in which I speak of your new-adopted faith. I think no better of any other. Epicureans, Stoics, Platonists, Jews, Christians, they are all alike to me. I hold them all at arms length. I have listened to them all; and more idle, indigested fancies never did I hear—no, not from the new-fledged advocate playing the rhetorician at ...

— Aurelian - or, Rome in the Third Century • William Ware