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Definition: digest
digest
n 1: a periodical that summarizes the news
2: something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
[syn:
compilation]
v 1: convert food into absorbable substances;
“I cannot digest
milk products”
2: arrange and integrate in the mind;
“I cannot digest all this
information”
3: put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
“I cannot bear
his constant criticism”;
“The new secretary had to endure
a lot of unprofessional remarks”;
“he learned to tolerate
the heat”;
“She stuck out two years in a miserable
marriage” [syn:
endure,
stick out,
stomach,
bear,
stand,
tolerate,
support,
brook,
abide,
suffer,
put up]
4: become assimilated into the body;
“Protein digests in a few
hours”
5: systematize, as by classifying and summarizing;
“the
government digested the entire law into a code”
6: soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or
moisture
7: make more concise;
“condense the contents of a book into a
summary” [syn:
condense,
concentrate]
8: soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or
moisture
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Digest
Digest
\Di*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Digested; p. pr. & vb.
n.
Digesting.] [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate,
arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear,
carry, wear. See
Jest.]
1. 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.
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Joining them together and digesting them into order.
--Blair.
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We have cause to be glad that matters are so well
digested. --Shak.
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2. (Physiol.) 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.
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3. 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.
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Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
--Sir H.
Sidney.
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How shall this bosom multiplied digest
The senate's courtesy? --Shak.
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4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
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Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the
Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest
them. --Book of
Common Prayer.
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5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled
to; to brook.
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I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's
works. --Coleridge.
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6. (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a
gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for
chemical operations.
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7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus,
as an ulcer or wound.
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8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]
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Well-digested fruits. --Jer. Taylor.
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9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
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Digest
\Di*gest"\, v. i.
1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
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2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
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Digest
\Di"gest\, n. [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr.
digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See
Digest, v. t.]
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked
over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles;
esp. (Law), 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.
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A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after
the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. --Sir W.
Jones.
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They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy,
called the Rights of Man. --Burke.
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