digest
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
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Etymology: From Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerō (“carry apart”), from dī- (for dis- (“apart”)) + gerō (“to carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion. Partly displaced native Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both “to melt, to digest,” whence Modern English melt.
Inflected forms:
form: digests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: digesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: digested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: digested
pos: verb
tags: past
form: digests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to digest laws
joining them together and digesting them into order
We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the morning giue them [horses] barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not diſgeſted.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?
Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
gloss: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
pos: verb
examples: I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.
gloss: To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To undergo digestion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.
I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
gloss: To cut with one or more restriction endonucleases.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins.
gloss: To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To ripen; to mature.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: well-digested fruits
gloss: To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.
pos: noun
examples: By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years.
gloss: A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
pos: noun
examples: Comyn's Digest
the United States Digest
gloss: Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
pos: noun
examples: Reader's Digest is published monthly.
The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
gloss: The result of applying a hash function to a message.
pos: noun
Derived words: autodigest
codigest
digestability
digestant
digestate
digestedly
digestedness
digester
digestogram
digestome
digestor
indigested
maldigest
maldigested
misdigest
nondigested
predigest
redigest
rest-and-digest
semidigested
underdigested
undigested
undigesting
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