cacogastric

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English

Etymology

caco- +‎ gastric

Adjective

cacogastric (comparative more cacogastric, superlative most cacogastric)

  1. (rare) Troubled with bad digestion.
    • 1833 Thomas Carlyle, Diderot, 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 cacogastric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)