DIGEST

vt to quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

2. digest ·vt to appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

3. digest ·vi to undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

4. digest ·vt to ripen; to mature.

5. digest ·vt to dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

6. digest ·vi to suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

7. digest ·vt hence: to bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

8. digest ·vt that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

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

10. digest ·vt 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.

11. digest ·vt 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.

12. digest ·vt 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.

13. digest ·vt 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.