indigest
English
Etymology
From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).
Adjective
indigest (comparative more indigest, superlative most indigest)
- (obsolete) Crude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.
- 1605 (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):
- 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 fricace
- 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:
- [M]onsters and things indigest […]
- 1613, William Browne, “The Third Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 46:
- Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus expreſt, / To be a Chaos rude and indigeſt: […]
Derived terms
Noun
indigest (plural indigests)
- (rare) (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Something ; a crude mass, or disordered state of affairs.
- c. 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:
- Be of good comfort (Prince) for you are borne
To ſet a forme vpon that indigeſt
- 1805, E. H. Seymour, Remarks […] upon the plays of Shakespeare, London, page 3:
- The other, more compendious as well as mischievous class of errors, are those indigests of grammar, […]
- 1965, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre, Tiger of time, and other poems, New York: Trident Press, page 56:
- Begotten from greedy indigests of pride
which rotted inside
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “indigest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Verb
indigest (third-person singular simple present indigests, present participle indigesting, simple past and past participle indigested)
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Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French indigeste, from Latin indigestus. Equivalent to in- + digest.
Adjective
indigest m or n (feminine singular indigestă, masculine plural indigești, feminine and neuter plural indigeste)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | indigest | indigestă | indigești | indigeste | |||
| definite | indigestul | indigesta | indigeștii | indigestele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | indigest | indigeste | indigești | indigeste | |||
| definite | indigestului | indigestei | indigeștilor | indigestelor | ||||