digest (dijest)

[ It. digerire = Sp. Pg. digerir = F. digérer ), carry apart, separate, divide, distribute, arrange, set in order, digest, di olve, This part of invention... I purpose... to propound, having digested it into two parts. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 217. Cornwall and Albany, With my two daughters' dowers, digest the third. Shak ., Lear, i. 1. 2. To analyze and distribute into suitable cla es, or under proper heads or titles, usually with condensation, so as to state results in concise form; arrange in convenient order; dispose methodically. Many laws were read over, and some of them scanned, but finding much difficulty in digesting and agreeing them,. another committee was chosen. Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 317. A series of an emperor's coins is his life, digested into annals. Add is on, Ancient Medals, i. Such a man seemed to her the properest person to di gest the memoirs of her life. Goldsmith, Voltaire. IMG:content-2628.png:[blocks in formation] Shak ., M. of V., iii. 5. There may be spirits also that digest no rude affronts. Ford, Perkin Warbeck, ii. 3. I never can digest the lo of most of Origen's works. Cole ridge. 8. In chem., to soften and prepare by heat; expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matra , as a preparation for operations. The fifthe maner is that the brennynge water be 10 tymes distil lid in hors dounge contynuely digest . Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 6. 9. To di olve and prepare for manure, as plants and other substances.-10t. In med . , to dispose to suppurate, as an ulcer or a wound. 11. To mature; ripen. [Rare.] IMG:content-2629.png:[blocks in formation] 1613 = Syn. 2. To cla ify, codify, systematize, methodize, reduce to order. -4. To study out, meditate, ponder, work upon. II. in trans. 1. To carry on the physiological proce of digestion. It is the stomach that digest eth , and dis tri but eth to all the rest. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 109. 2. To undergo digestion, as food. Hunger's my cook; my labour brings me meat, Which best digests when it is sauc'd with sweat. Brome, To his Friend, Mr. J. В. 3. To be prepared by heat.-4+. To suppurate; generate pus, as an ulcer or a wound.-5. To di olve and be prepared for manure, as substances in compost.