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Publish date: 2024-06-06
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. |
| • | Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. |
| • | To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. |
| • | To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. |
| • | To ripen; to mature. |
| • | To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. |
| • | To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. |
| • | To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. |
| • | That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles |
| • | 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. |
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