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
My head is as un-mechanic as it is un-arithmetic, un-geometric, un-metaphysic, uncommercial; but will not some one of those superior heads to whom you have talked on my indigested hint reduce it to practicability'!
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace
The eye wanders over a vast indigested mass; and information, when it is to be acquired with excessive toil, is, comparatively, seldom acquired.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, And yet brought forth less than a mother's hope, An indigested and deformed lump, Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William
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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