digest

1. v. t. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. 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. Source: opted

3. v. t. 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. Source: opted

4. v. t. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. Source: opted

5. v. t. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. Source: opted

6. v. t. To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. Source: opted

7. v. t. To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. Source: opted

8. v. t. To ripen; to mature. Source: opted

9. v. t. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. Source: opted

10. v. i. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. Source: opted

11. v. i. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. Source: opted

12. v. t. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles Source: opted

13. v. t. 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. Source: opted

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