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Indigestible   Listen
adjective
Indigestible  adj.  
1.
Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.
2.
Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile.






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"Indigestible" Quotes from Famous Books



... desire to swallow indigestible substances. I once saw a young lady, about ten years of age, who filled her stomach with the earth out of a flower-pot, and vomited it up with small stones, bits of wood, and wings of infects amongst it. She had the bombycinous complexion, ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... when it is well cooked and has plenty of crust is quite eatable. French cooking is far away, however, and the bread is usually a sort of soggy, half-baked flabby paste, most unpalatable and most indigestible. Here was the worst bread we ...
— The Luck of Thirteen - Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia • Jan Gordon

... and a half of mixed food. To avoid parasitic diseases, meat should not be eaten rare, especially pork. The amount of drink taken should not be more than three pints in twenty-four hours. The excessive use of tea and coffee should be avoided. Pickles, boiled cabbage, and other indigestible ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... replied by taking from his pocket a small and very greasy parcel, slowly unfolding it, and displaying a little slab of plum-cake extremely indigestible in appearance, and bordered with a paste of white sugar an inch ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... thereof was the form to be found wherein the hare did sit. Thou hast not the skill and dexterity of settling and composing differences. Why? Because thou takest them at the beginning, in the very infancy and bud as it were, when they are green, raw, and indigestible. Yet I know handsomely and featly how to compose and settle them all. Why? Because I take them at their decadence, in their weaning, and when they are pretty well digested. ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


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