1. Not brought to a mature or proper condition by natural physical change.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., b j b. Fleme is vndigested bloudde. Ibid., B iv b. The vndigested & rawe humours are ye cause of opilations.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. 201. When we behold the sunne through thicke clouds and undigested vapors, we see it not cleere.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 163. Vpon Mount Taurus, where wee exposed our heated bodies to vndigested vapours which easily penetrated vs.
1700. Blackmore, Job, 10. Deform’d he lay, disfigur’d, cover’d o’er With running boyls and undigested gore.
1738. Gray, Tasso, 58. Further they pass, where ripening minerals flow, And embryon metals undigested glow.
2. Of food, etc.: Not digested in the stomach.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 27 b/2. When as the stomacke is burthened with anye cruditye of vndigested meat or drincke.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, viii. 166. It is the hurtfullest thing to the body, to ingest meat vpon meat vndigested.
1693. Dryden, etc., Juvenal, IV. (1697), 60. Thy own third Story smoaks, while thou, supine, Art drench’d in Fumes of undigested Wine.
1808. Med. Jrnl., XIX. 22. She then took an emetic, which brought up some green undigested stuff.
1892. H. Lane, Differ. Rheum. Dis. (ed. 2), 87. Undigested food giving rise to acute gastritis.
fig. c. 1610. Women Saints, 122. Verie bitter speaches … such as swelling and vndigested discord is wonte to belke oute.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xiv. III. 460. His reading, too, though undigested, was of immense extent.
1890. Daily News, 2 June, 5/5. Trusts have found favour with the public, and have relieved financiers of much undigested stock.
3. Not reduced to order or harmony; not properly arranged or regulated; chaotic; confused.
1598. Florio, Indigésto, vndigested, vnpollished.
1621. Sandys, trans. Ovid’s Met., I. (1626), 1. One face had Nature, which they Chaos nam’d: An vndigested lump.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., I. xxxix. When that great Power … Brought into act this undigested Ball.
1665. in Surtees Misc. (1860), 263. The Treasury and Registry are undigested into order.
1866. J. B. Rose, trans. Ovid’s Met., 1. One dull unvaried face Of matter undigested.
1884. Manch. Exam., 17 Sept., 4/6. A crude and undigested mass of useless rubbish.
b. Of discourse, ideas, etc.
1655. Nicholas Papers (Camden), II. 282. Thus haue I made you a most broken vndigiested discourse.
1692. Washington, trans. Milton’s Def. People, Pref., M.’s Wks. 1851, VIII. 11. The undigested and immethodical bulk of his Book.
1742. West, Lett., in Gray’s Poems (1775), 147. At least a volume of undigested observations.
1792. Burke, Corr. (1844), IV. 35. What signifies their sputtering out a few hasty and undigested invectives?
1839. Hallam, Lit. Eur., II. i. II. 35, note. The whole was published in an undigested, incoherent, and sometimes self-contradictory paragraph.
