indigestedness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From indigested + -ness.
Noun
[edit]indigestedness (uncountable)
- (archaic) The state or quality of being indigested; crudeness.
- 1682, Gilbert Burnet, The Life and death of Sir Matthew Hale:
- They looked on the common law as a study that could not be brought into a scheme , nor formed into a rational science , by reason of the indigestedness of it , and the multiplicity of the cases in it
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “indigestedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)