cacogastric

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

caco- +‎ gastric

Adjective[edit]

cacogastric (comparative more cacogastric, superlative most cacogastric)

  1. (rare, archaic) Troubled with bad digestion.
    • 1833, Thomas Carlyle, “Diderot”, in Foreign Quarterly Review:
      Diderot writes to his fair one, that his clothes will hardly button, that he is thus "stuffed," and thus; and so indigestion, succeeds indigestion. Such Narratives fill the heart of sensibility with amazement; nor to the woes that chequer this imperfect, caco-gastric state of existence, is the tear wanting.

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