Definition of "digest"

digest¹

/daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/

verb
third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested
1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
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  joining them together and digesting them into order
  1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
  We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene ii]
2. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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.
  Quotations
  Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
  1566, Henry Sidney, letter to Philip Sidney
  How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?
  c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
  Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
  1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi Whitchurche […]
4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
  Quotations
  I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.
  1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk - Toleration-Norwegians
5. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
  Quotations
  I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 78
7. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
  Quotations
  The Lips of the Abſceſs digeſted vvell, but from vvithin it onely gleeted, and thruſt out Fat, vvhich vve daily cut off vvithout the loſs of a drop of blood, and dreſſed up the Abſceſs vvith mundif. ex apio, continuing the uſe of diſcutient Fomentations and Cataplaſins.
  1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XVIII. Of an Oedema.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], page 89
8. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.
  Quotations
  well-digested fruits
  1662, Jeremy Taylor, The Measures and Offices of Friendship
10. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)

digest²

/ˈdaɪd͡ʒɛst/

noun
plural digests
1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
4. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

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