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单词 indigest
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indigestadj.n.

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s Scottish -de-.
Etymology: < Latin indigestus unarranged, confused, not digested, < in- (in- prefix4) + dīgestus , past participle of dīgerĕre to digest v. Compare French indigeste (14th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
Obsolete.
A. adj.
a. Undigested; crude, immature; shapeless, confused; unarranged.Often with reference to Ovid's Quem dixere chaos, rudis indigestaque moles, Met. i. 7.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > not put in order
indigest1398
unordereda1500
undressed1530
undight1555
indisposed1598
undigested1598
indigested1613
unset1631
unranged1633
unadjusted1775
unarranged1791
unsystematized1832
uncatalogued1837
unassorted1865
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
rawa1398
indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
unseasonable1515
unbuilded1519
inchoate1534
unripened1561
uncivil1572
unmellowed1573
unmanured1577
unblown1587
ungrown1593
unpolished1594
rudimental1597
rude1600
unsalted1602
unseasoned1602
unlicked1612
embryon1613
unbakeda1616
unbloweda1616
unfledged1615
unmellow1615
sappya1627
embryous1628
unconcocteda1631
unkneaded1633
immature1635
sucking1648
vacuous1651
embryo1659
unelaborate1663
unmature1673
unformed1689
undeveloped1736
infantile1772
uncultivated1796
unelaborated1817
fetal1820
embryotic1823
embryonic1825
embryonary1833
sophomoric1837
seedling1843
rudimentary1851
unwrought1869
juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. lxxiv. (Add. MS. 27944) lf. 228/1 Fruyt is first grene and indigest..but þe vtter hete comforteþ þe Inner hete, and makiþ digestioun in the soure humour, and dissolueth it.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 102 Correctyon of corrupt & indygest humorys ys the chefe poynt.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 133 Then the personis fornamed heard weaping and, as it war ane indigest sound, as it war of prayeris, in the which he continewed neyre ane hour.
1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 35 Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus exprest, To be a Chaos rude and indigest.
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 257 The somewhat rude and indigest mass of his materials.
1806 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 4 884 The lump of indigest materials industriously provided by a man of letters for the purpose of drawing up a book.
b. figurative. Of persons: Immature; of crude or hasty character.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > childish folly, childishness > [adjective]
childishc1405
indigest1423
bairnly1533
babish?1552
babished1563
babyish1646
puerilea1680
chitty1755
jejune1898
immature1902
1423 Kingis Quair xiv Though [sely] ȝouth of nature Indegest, Vnrypit fruyte with windis variable.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. vii. 104 A man nocht indegest, bot wys and cald.
B. n.
A shapeless mass.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [noun] > shapeless mass
chaos1562
indigesta1616
quab1629
blotch1872
sludge1906
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. vii. 26 You are borne To set a forme vpon that indigest Which he hath left so shapelesse, and so rude. View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

indigestv.

Etymology: < in- prefix4 + digest v. after indigestion n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: indiˈgest.
(trivial.)
a. transitive. To fail to digest.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > indigestion
heart-burn?1537
indigest1814
1814 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1975) IV. 92 Which I swallowed for supper, and indigested for I don't know how long.
1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway p. xii One of those people who never indigest anything, but always look, and always are, in perfect health and spirits.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 81 On this part of himself that I am about to indigest may the Lord have mercy.
b. intransitive. To fail to digest; to fail to be digested.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > indigestion
indigest1857
1857 E. C. Gaskell Let. Dec. (1966) 489 I don't see exactly what you do in America. You indigest, all of you, and some of you make money at a great rate.
1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous II. ix. 299 He breakfasted very heartily of Minced Veal, which he hoped would not indigest.
1954 W. Faulkner Fable 337 ‘Then we will starve,’ the first said. ‘Or indigest,’ the third said.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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