Definitions for Digest
dɪˈdʒɛst, daɪ-; ˈdaɪ dʒɛstdi·gest

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. digestnoun

   a periodical that summarizes the news

2. compilation, digestverb

   something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

3. digestverb

   convert food into absorbable substances

   "I cannot digest milk products"

4. digestverb

   arrange and integrate in the mind

   "I cannot digest all this information"

5. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put upverb

   put up with something or somebody unpleasant

   "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

6. digestverb

   become assimilated into the body

   "Protein digests in a few hours"

7. digestverb

   systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

   "the government digested the entire law into a code"

8. digestverb

   soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

9. digest, condense, concentrateverb

   make more concise

   "condense the contents of a book into a summary"

10. digestverb

    soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Digestnoun

   The pandect of the civil law, containing the opinions of the ancient lawyers.

   Etymology: digesta, Latin.

   I had a purpose to make a particular digest, or recompilement of the laws of mine own nation. Francis Bacon.

   Laws in the digest shew that the Romans applied themselves to trade. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

2. To DIGESTverb

   Etymology: digero, digestum, Latin.

   1. To distribute into various classes or repositories; to range or dispose methodically.2. To concoct in the stomach, so as that the various particles of food may be applied to their proper use.

   If little faults, proceeding on distemper,
   Shall not be wink’d at, how shall we stretch our eye,
   When capital crimes, chew’d, swallow’d, and digested,
   Appear. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Each then has organs to digest his food;
   One to beget, and one receive the brood. Matthew Prior.

   3. To soften by heat, as in a boiler, or in a dunghil: a chemical term.4. To range methodically in the mind; to apply knowledge by meditation to its proper use.

   A few chosen friends, who sometimes deign
   To bless my humble roof, with sense refin’d,
   Learning digested well. James Thomson, Winter, l. 550.

   5. To reduce to any plan, scheme, or method.

   Our play
   Leaps o’er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,
   ’Ginning i’ th’ middle: starting thence away,
   To what may be digested in a play. William Shakespeare, Troil. and Cressid.

   6. To receive without loathing or repugnance; not to reject.

   First, let us go to dinner.
   —— Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
   —— No, pray thee, let it serve for table talk;
   Then howsoe’er thou speak’st, ’mong other things
   I shall digest it. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.

   The pleasance of numbers, that rudeness and barbarism might the better taste and digest the lessons of civility. Henry Peacham.

   7. To receive and enjoy.

   Cornwal and Albany,
   With my two daughters dowers, digest the third. William Shakespeare.

   8. [In chirurgery.] To dispose a wound; to generate pus in order to a cure.

3. To Digestverb

   To generate matter as a wound, and tend to a cure.

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1. digest

   Digest is a term that can have multiple meanings based on its context: 1) As a verb in bodily processes, it refers to the breakdown of food in the stomach and intestines into substances that can be used by the body. 2) As a noun, it may refer to a collection or compilation of information, potentially condensed or abridged for easy understanding or reference. 3) As a verb in reading or understanding context, it means to thoroughly understand or absorb information. 4) In wastewater treatment, it refers to the process of reducing organic matter by microbes through anaerobic or aerobic processes.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Digestverb

   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

2. Digestverb

   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

3. Digestverb

   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

4. Digestverb

   to appropriate for strengthening and comfort

5. Digestverb

   hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook

6. Digestverb

   to soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations

7. Digestverb

   to dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound

8. Digestverb

   to ripen; to mature

9. Digestverb

   to quiet or abate, as anger or grief

10. Digestverb

    to undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill

11. Digestverb

    to suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer

12. Digestverb

    that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles

13. Digestverb

    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

14. Etymology: [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest.]

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1. Digest

   The Digest, also known as the Pandects, is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century. The Digest was one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law issued under Justinian I. The other two parts were Institutes of Justinian, and the Codex Justinianus. A fourth part, the Novels, was added later. The original Codex Justinianus was promulgated in April of 529 by the C. "Summa," which made it the only source of imperial law, repealing all earlier codifications. However, it permitted reference to ancient jurists whose writings had been regarded as authoritative. Under Theodosus II's Law of Citations, the writings of Papinian, Paulus, Ulpian, Modestinus, and Gaius were made the primary juristic authorities who could be cited in court. Others cited by them also could be referred to, but their views had to be "informed by a comparison of manuscripts." Unfortunately, these authorities often conflicted. Therefore, Justinian ordered these conflicts to be settled and fifty of these were published as the "quinquaqinta decisiones". Soon after, he further decreed that the works of these ancient writers, which totaled over 1,500 books, be condensed into fifty books. These were to be entitled, in Latin, "Digesta" or, in Greek, "Pandectae". In response to this order of December 15, 530, Tribonian created a commission of sixteen members to do the work--one government official, four professors, and eleven advocates.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Digest

   di-jest′, v.t. to dissolve food in the stomach: to soften by heat and moisture: to distribute and arrange: to prepare or classify in the mind: to think over.—v.i. to be dissolved in the stomach: to be softened by heat and moisture.—adv. Digest′edly.—n. Digest′er, one who digests: a close vessel in which by heat and pressure strong extracts are made from animal and vegetable substances.—n. Digestibil′ity.—adj. Digest′ible, that may be digested.—n. Diges′tion, the dissolving of the food in the stomach: orderly arrangement: exposing to slow heat, &c.—adj. Digest′ive, pertaining to digestion: promoting digestion.—adv. Digest′ively. [L. digerĕre, digestum, to carry asunder or dissolve—di (= dis), asunder, and gerĕre, to bear.]

2. Digest

   dī′jest, n. a body of laws collected and arranged, esp. the Justinian code of civil laws. [L. digesta, neut. pl. of digestus, pa.p. of digerĕre, to carry apart, to arrange.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. digest

   To change food into a form of matter.

   The body of an animal and human can change food into a simple form this is called digestion.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 19, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Abridge
   • Break Down
   • Change
   • Comprehend
   • Disintegrate
   • Periodical
   • Permit
   • Process
   • Systematize

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Digest in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Digest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Digest in a Sentence

1. Kwon Ji-an:

   I was too young and socially immature to digest all the glamour and changes in the environment, and there's no self-medication whatsoever, then how do you respond to all of those vicious online comments? If you explain, they'll dismiss it as an excuse, and if you fight, they'll dislike you even more.

2. Calvin Harris:

   Radio still has a hard time with dance music and that's really the crossover medium, that's how people still digest music even with all these streaming services and downloading services out there, people still listen to radio.

3. Phil Flynn:

   The market is taking a pause as it tries to digest mixed reports that give us different ideas of future supply and demand, the OPEC-plus meeting could give us a little direction.

4. Mukaibar Shah:

   Stupids still can't digest the fact that they were fooled by media who spread lies and fear by constantly saying rumour that there is a virus Covid-19 and they are even now seen wearing masks. Doctors looted the patients by injecting vaccines and under the cover of treatment.

5. Glenn Levine:

   Often we let our mind quickly react to something before we've truly had time to allow our higher levels of cognitive functioning, our prefrontal cortex, to weigh in, we want to pause, ponder and digest this, and take a couple seconds to decide what is the most skillful way to react.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Digest
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Digest
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Digest
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Digest
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Digest