单词 | of hard digestion |
释义 | > as lemmasof hard (etc.) digestion e. slow of digestion, easy of digestion, hard of digestion: slow, easy, hard to be digested. So of hard (etc.) digestion: cf. 4. Also figurative. ΚΠ 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) ii. xiii. 31 b It is slowe of digestion. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. M8v Oyster..somewhat hard of degestion. 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars ii. 64 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Their laws hard of disgestion, and their commands intollerable. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) ix. 116 A Doctrine that seems to be of hard digestion to a great many. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 320 These conditions were not of an easy digestion. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 253 Flesh roasted..not so easy of Digestion as boil'd. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxxi. 200 These points were of hard digestion with the princess. 1838 Penny Cycl. X. 343 Mucus..is deemed both nutritious and of easy digestion. 1863–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. II. 327 Raw flesh is generally regarded as more difficult of digestion than boiled or roast meat. < as lemmas |
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