单词 | indigest |
释义 | † indigestadj.n. 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. (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). < adj.n.1398v.1814 |
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