Definition of 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- v. t. - To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
- v. t. - Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be
reconciled to; to brook.
- 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.
- v. t. - To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an
ulcer or wound.
- v. t. - To ripen; to mature.
- v. t. - To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
- v. i. - To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
- v. i. - To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
- v. t. - That which is digested; especially, that which is worked
over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
- 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.