Digest(v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Digest(v. i.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Digest(v. t.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
Digest(v. t.) A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
Digest(v. t.) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
Digest(v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
Digest(v. t.) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
Digest(v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
Digest(v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
Digest(v. t.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Digest(v. t.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Digest(v. t.) To ripen; to mature.
Digest(v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
Digested(imp. & p. p.) of Digest
Digestedly(adv.) In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
Digester(n.) One who digests.
Digester(n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
Digester(n.) A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them.
Digestibility(n.) The quality of being digestible.
Digestible(a.) Capable of being digested.
Digestibleness(n.) The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
Digesting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digest
Digestion(n.) The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
Digestion(n.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
Digestion(n.) Generation of pus; suppuration.
Digestive(a.) Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive(n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
Digestive(n.) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
Digestive(n.) A tonic.
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