Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.]

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. --B. Jonson.

Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.

Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Digestive \Di*gest"ive\, n.

1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. --Chaucer.

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

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)