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) Something indigested; 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
References
- “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 | ||||