indigest

comparative more indigest · superlative most indigest

1. obsoleteCrude; undigested; upset; unformed; unorganized.

   [M]onsters and things indigest […]

   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

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   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

   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)

   Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus expreſt, / To be a Chaos rude and indigeſt: […]

   1613, William Browne, “The Third Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 46

plural indigests

1. rareSomething indigested; a crude mass, or disordered state of affairs.

   Begotten from greedy indigests of pride which rotted inside

   1965, Carlyle Ferren MacIntyre, Tiger of time, and other poems, New York: Trident Press, page 56

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   Be of good comfort (Prince) for you are borne To ſet a forme vpon that indigeſt

   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]

   The other, more compendious as well as mischievous class of errors, are those indigests of grammar, […]

   1805, E. H. Seymour, Remarks […] upon the plays of Shakespeare, London, page 3

present singular third person indigests · participle present indigesting · participle past indigested · past indigested