01 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 law…
imp. & p. p.
Digested; p. pr. & vb. n.
Digesting
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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.” — Blair.“We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.” — Shak.
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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.(Physiol.)
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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.” — Sir H. Sidney.“How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?” — Shak.
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To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.“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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Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.“I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.” — Coleridge.
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To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.(Chem.)
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To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.(Med.)
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To ripen; to mature.[Obs.]“Well-digested fruits.” — Jer. Taylor.
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To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.