indigested
Americanadjective
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without arrangement or order.
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unformed or shapeless.
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not digested; undigested.
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not duly considered.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of indigested
First recorded in 1585–95; in- 3 + digest ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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But the measures, though prompt, ought not to be rash and indigested.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Repentance is the weight Of indigested meals eat yesterday.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
See, from afar, yon rock that mates the sky, About whose feet such heaps of rubbish lie; Such indigested ruin; bleak and bare, How desart now it stands, expos'd in air!
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Anthony a Wood speaks of this writer and of his works in terms of the highest contempt, characterizing the former as “a cock-brained man,” and the latter as “rhapsodical, indigested and whimsical.”
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony
Returned from Scotland in 1746, Prince Charles brought with him a head full of indigested romance, a heart rich in chimerical expectations.
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Lang, Andrew
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