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