_indigestedの英語

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• IPA^(key): /ˌɪndɪˈd͡ʒɛstɪd/

形容詞

indigested (comparative more indigested, superlative most indigested)

1. (now まれに) Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; unmethodical, crude.
   • 1665. Robert South, Sermon preached at St. Mary's, Oxon, before the University, on Christmas-Day, 1665

     This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time.

   • 1697, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432, lines 252–255, page 441:

     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!

   • 1720, [attributed to Jonathan Swift], The Right of Precedence between Phisicians and Civilians Enquir’d into, Dublin: […] [J. Gowan] for John Hyde […], and Robert Owen […], OCLC 1227582291, page 16:

     [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, Notions crude, and indigeſted, a Pamphlet empty or hungry, a Stile jejune, and many ſuch like Expreſſions, plainly alluding to the Diet of an Author, and I make no manner of doubt but Tully [i.e., Cicero] grounded that ſaying of Helluo Librorum upon the ſame Obſervation.

   • 1753, Joshua Reynolds, in John Ingamells, John Edgcumbe (eds.), The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Yale 2000, p. 14:

     [T]hey were obliged to dispatch their Pictures as fast they could in order to receive the cash so that their first Pictures which were exposed and by which their reputation was to stand or fall were slight indigested and incorrect things[.]

   • 1780, Edmund Burke, Speech on Œconomical Reform

     In hot reformations […] the whole is generally so crude, so harsh, and so indigested.

2. Not digested in the stomach; undigested.
   • 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. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745: