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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected by indigestion; dyspeptic.

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Examples

  • He took his usual poor eighteenpennyworth of food in his usual indigestive way, and had as little to say for himself as ever a wonderful man had.

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • If they nourish the sick, why not feed the well; why not abolish our kitchens at an immense saving in the time, expense, and worry of cooking, and live on them at an immense saving of the tax of digestion and the indigestive processes?

    The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

  • There were two soups, three fishes, dozens of _entrées_, three or four joints -- the mere memory of it is indigestive.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 13, 1891 Various

  • Digestive, indigestive torpor is also torpor of the sense of _responsibility_.

    The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure Edward Hooker Dewey

  • David ventured to say that that course of diet would be pretty indigestive, whereupon Mr. Tripple fondly suggested, as he gazed into her eyes, "How would love do for a substitute, then?" implying that "his way" would supply that abstract edible in equally large doses.

    In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World 1902

  • I think that, after all, when we look back upon a hundred years through which the country has passed, the vista is not so disheartening as to the indigestive fancy it might at first appear.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

  • Georgiana, whom I had seen at Miss Havisham's on the same occasion, also turned up. she was a cousin - an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.

    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

  • She was a cousin -- an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.

    Great Expectations 1860

  • It is found that the stomach has the power of gradually accommodating indigestive powers to the food it habitually receives.

    American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

  • She was a cousin, -- an indigestive single woman, who called her rigidity religion, and her liver love.

    Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841

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