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Webster 1913 Edition

Digest

Di-gest′

,
Verb.
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.
Joining them together and
digesting
them into order.
Blair.
We have cause to be glad that matters are so well
digested
.
Shakespeare
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.
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.
Feelingly
digest
the words you speak in prayer.
Sir H. Sidney.
How shall this bosom multiplied
digest

The senate’s courtesy?
Shakespeare
4.
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.
5.
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.
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.
7.
(Med.)
To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
8.
To ripen; to mature.
[Obs.]
Well-
digested
fruits.
Jer. Taylor.
9.
To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

Di-gest′

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To undergo digestion;
as, food
digests
well or ill
.
2.
(Med.)
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Di′gest

,
Noun.
[L.
digestum
, pl.
digesta
, neut., fr.
digestus
, p. p.: cf. F.
digeste
. See
Digest
,
Verb.
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
.
A complete
digest
of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.
Sir W. Jones.
They made a sort of institute and
digest
of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
Burke.

Webster 1828 Edition

Digest

DIGEST

,
Noun.
[L., put in order.]
1.
A collection or body of Roman laws, digested or arranged under proper titles by order of the Emperor Justinian. A pandect.
2.
Any collection, compilation, abridgment or summary of laws, disposed under proper heads or titles; as the digest of Comyns.

DIGEST

,
Verb.
T.
L., to distribute, or to dissolve; to bear, carry, or wear.]
1.
To distribute into suitable classes, or under proper heads or titles; to arrange in convenient order; to dispose in due method; as, to digest the Roman laws or the common law.
2.
To arrange methodically in the mind; to form with due arrangement of parts; as, to digest a plan or scheme.
3.
To separate or dissolve in the stomach, as food; to reduce to minute parts fit to enter the lacteals and circulate; to concoct; to covert into chyme.
4.
In chemistry, to soften and prepare by heat; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
5.
To bear with patience; to brook; to receive without resentment; not to reject; as, say what you will, he will digest it.
6.
To prepare in the mind; to dispose in a manner that shall improve the understanding and heart; to prepare for nourishing practical duties; as, to digest a discourse or sermon.
7.
To dispose an ulcer or wound to suppurate.
8.
To dissolve and prepare for manure, as plants and other substances.

DIGEST

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To be prepared by heat.
2.
To suppurate; to generate laudable pus; as an ulcer or wound.
3.
To dissolve and be prepared for manure, as substances in compost.

Definition 2024

digest

digest

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dī-jĕstʹ, də-jĕstʹ, IPA(key): /daɪˈdʒɛst/, /dəˈdʒɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Verb

digest ‎(third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested)

  1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
    to digest laws
    • Blair
      joining them together and digesting them into order
    • Shakespeare
      We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
  2. (transitive) 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.
  3. (transitive) 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.
    • Sir H. Sidney
      Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
    • Shakespeare
      How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?
    • Book of Common Prayer
      Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
  4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
    • Coleridge
      I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.
  5. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
  6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
    Food digests well or badly.
  7. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
  8. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
    • Jeremy Taylor
      well-digested fruits
  10. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or abate, as anger or grief.
Synonyms
  • (distribute or arrange methodically): arrange, sort, sort out
  • (separate food in the alimentary canal):
  • (think over and arrange methodically in the mind): sort out
  • (chemistry, soften by heat and moisture):
  • (undergo digestion):
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin digesta, neuter plural of digestus, past participle of digero ‎(“separate”)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dīʹjĕst, IPA(key): /ˈdaɪdʒɛst/
  • Rhymes: -ɛst

Noun

digest ‎(plural digests)

  1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
  2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
    Comyn's Digest
    the United States Digest
  3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
    Reader's Digest is published monthly.
    The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.
  4. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.
Usage notes
  • (compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged): The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian, but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics.
Translations

Old French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin dīgestus.

Adjective

digest m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular digeste)

  1. digested

Etymology

From Middle English digesten, from Latin digestus, past participle of dīgerō ‎(“carry apart”), from dī- for dis- ‎(“apart”) + gerō ‎(“I carry”), influenced by Middle French digestion.

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