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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] Joining them together and digesting them into order. --Blair. [1913 Webster] We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. --Sir H. Sidney. [1913 Webster] How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [1913 Webster] Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. --Book of Common Prayer. [1913 Webster] 5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [1913 Webster] I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [1913 Webster] 8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Well-digested fruits. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Digest \Di*gest"\, v. i. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. --Sir W. Jones. [1913 Webster] They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. --Burke. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: digest n 1: a periodical that summarizes the news 2: something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) [syn: {compilation}, {digest}] v 1: convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products" 2: arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information" 3: 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" [syn: {digest}, {endure}, {stick out}, {stomach}, {bear}, {stand}, {tolerate}, {support}, {brook}, {abide}, {suffer}, {put up}] 4: become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours" 5: systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code" 6: soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture 7: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: {digest}, {condense}, {concentrate}] 8: soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture