4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
Book of Common Prayer. 5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.
Coleridge. 6. (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a
preparation for chemical operations.
7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]
Well-digested fruits.
Jer. Taylor. 9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
Digest
(Di*gest") v. i.
1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Digest
(Di"gest) n. [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr. digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v.
t.] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper
heads or titles; esp. (Law), A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is
applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian 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.
A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.
Sir W. Jones.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
Burke. Digestedly
(Di*gest"ed*ly) adv. In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.
