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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. Sir H. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall this bosom multiplied digest
The senate's courtesy? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [ the Scriptures ], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To ripen; to mature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Well-digested fruits. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who digests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being digestible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. digestible, L. digestibilis. ] Capable of being digested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being digestible; digestibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. digestion, L. digestio. ] 1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

That digestive [ a cigar ] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]