Noun
something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

Noun
a periodical that summarizes the news

Verb
soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Verb
make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"

Verb
soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

Verb
systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"

Verb
become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"

Verb
arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"

Verb
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"

Verb
convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"

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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.

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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.

Joining them together and digesting them into order.

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.

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. 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.

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?

4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.

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. 7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. 8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]

Well-digested fruits.

9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

Digest

Di*gest" , v. i. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. 2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

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.

A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

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.

To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles