disgest

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

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"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."
"disgest the harder part"

Corruption of digest, influenced by dis- and chest in the mistaken belief that it refers to food moving from the chest to the intestine.

disgests (present, singular) disgesting (participle, present) disgested (participle, past) disgested (past)

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