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Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale.

Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. [Obs.] "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.

Not digested; undigested. "Indigested food." Dryden.

The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness. Bp. Burnet.

The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.

Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. Sir T. Browne.

That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.

The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.

Longer; longest; -- obsolete compar. and superl. of long. Chaucer.

Wrong or evil suggestion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.] Bacon.

To digest, or reduce to form, a second time. Kent.

A register. [Obs.] Milton.

, the original compar. & superl. of Strong. [Obs.] Two of us shall strenger be than one. Chaucer.

o cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke.

One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.