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cacogastric en · ADJ

Etymology

From caco- + gastric.

Meanings

1. (archaic, rare) Troubled with bad digestion.
   • 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. 1833, Thomas Carlyle, “Diderot”, in Foreign Quarterly Review:

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