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

a periodical that summarizes the news

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

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

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

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

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

a periodical that summarizes the news

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

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 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.

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.

To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

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

To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

To ripen; to mature.

To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

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

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

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

To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

To ripen; to mature.

To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

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

To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

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

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 classification; as, a digest of laws; a classified arrangement of written or printed material; as, a literary digest.

To arrange methodically under proper heads or titles; classify; think over and arrange in the mind; dissolve in the stomach; soften and prepare by heat.

To be dissolved in the stomach; to be prepared by heat.

1. To soften by moisture and heat. 2. To hydrolyze or break up into simpler chemical compounds by means of ferments, noting the action of the secretions of the alimentary tract upon the food.

The change of food in the stomach before assimilation.

To dissolve food in the stomach: to soften by heat and moisture: to distribute and arrange: to prepare or classify in the mind: to think over.

To be dissolved in the stomach: to be softened by heat and moisture. n. -DIGESTER.

A body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws.

A body of laws; summary.

To dissolve in the stomach; meditate thoroughly; classify.

To change in the stomach, as food; take into the physical or mental organism; assimilate.

To analyze and classify; form into a digest.

To tolerate; endure.

Digester.

A systematic arrangement; summary; compilation.

Originally a collection of Roman laws, digested or arranged under their proper beads or titles, such as the pandects of Justinian; any similar collection or summary of laws.

To arrange under suitable heads or titles; to classify; to arrange in the mind; to separate the nutritive from the unnutritive elements of the food in the stomach; to convert into chyme; to prepare in the mind; to brook; to soften and prepare by best; to expose to a gentlo heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

To be digested; to be prepared by heat; to generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound; to dissolve and be prepared for manure, as substances in compost.

To distribute under suitable heads or titles; to arrange in convenient order, or with due method; to think over and arrange in the mind; to dissolve or reduce the food in the stomach; to bear with patience; in chem., to prepare by heat.

Any compilation, abridgment, or summary of laws arranged under proper heads or titles.

To perform or to undergo digestion.

n. [Latin] That which is digested; that which is worked over, classified, and arranged;—a collection of Roman laws arranged under proper titles by order of the emperor Justinian;—any compilation or arrangement of literary or legal materials;—summary; abridgment.

The pandect of the civil law.