indigest
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin indigestus (“unarranged”).
Adjective
[edit]indigest (comparative more indigest, superlative most indigest)
- (obsolete) Crude; undigested; unformed; unorganized.
- 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 Second Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The First Booke, London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC, page 46:
- Me thinkes a troubled thought is thus expreſt, / To be a Chaos rude and indigeſt: […]
Noun
[edit]indigest (plural indigests)
- (obsolete) 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
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Anagrams
[edit]Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French indigeste, from Latin indigestus. Equivalent to in- + digest.
Adjective
[edit]indigest m or n (feminine singular indigestă, masculine plural indigești, feminine and neuter plural indigeste)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||||||
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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 |
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