digest
/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/
Frequency: 3.71 in modern English
Meaning
verb
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
Transitive verb
verb
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.
Transitive verb
verb
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.
Transitive verb
verb
To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
verb
To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "to digest laws"
- "joining them together and digesting them into order"
- "We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested."
- "In the morning giue them [horses] barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not diſgeſted."
- "Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer."
- "How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₂eǵ-, digesten, dīgestus, dīgesta