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indigest

indigest adjective: crude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.

Adjective

indigest (comparative more indigest, superlative most indigest)

  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

Noun

indigest (plural indigests)

  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]...
    • 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

Forms of indigest

Adjective
comparativemore indigest
superlativemost indigest
Noun
pluralindigests
Verb
third-person singular presentindigests
present participleindigesting
past participleindigested
pastindigested

Origin of indigest

From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).

Words formed from indigest

Questions about indigest

What does indigest mean?
Indigest means crude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.
What part of speech is indigest?
Indigest can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near indigest in the dictionary

  1. indigens
  2. indigent
  3. indigently
  4. indigents
  5. Indigequeer
  6. indigest
  7. indigested
  8. indigestedness
  9. indigestibility
  10. indigestible
  11. indigestibleness

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