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Indigested

1. Not digested; undigested. Indigested food.

2. Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts. In hot reformations . . . The whole is generally crude, harsh, and indigested. (Burke) This, like an indigested meteor, appeared and disappeared almost at the same time. (South)

3. (Science: medicine) Not in a state suitable for healing; said of wounds. Not ripened or suppurated; said of an abscess or its contents.

4. Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.

Origin: Pref. In- not _ digested.