indigested

Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; unmethodical, crude.

Adjective

  1. Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; unmethodical, crude.
    • This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time. - 1665, Robert South, Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxon, before the University, on Christmas-Day, 1665:
    • See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About whoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / How deſart now it ſtands, expos'd in Air! - 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the...
    • [A] Writers Stomach, Appetite, and Victuals, may be judg'd from his Method, Stile, and Subject, as certainly as if you were his Meſs-fellow, and ſat at Table with him. Hence we call a Subject dry, a Writer inſipid,...
  2. Not digested in the stomach; undigested.
    • Indigested food. - 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...
  3. Of wounds: not in a state suitable for healing; (specifically) of an abscess or its contents: not ripened or suppurated.

Origin

From in- + digested.

Forms

more indigested most indigested

Derived

indigestedness