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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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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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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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