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Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. To what will thy congested guilt amount Blackmore.

Crowded together. Gray.

The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [Obs.] The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn.

Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever.

; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak.

In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically.

One who digests.

The quality of being digestible.

Capable of being digested.

The quality of being digestible; digestibility.

The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.

Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.…

See Digester.

Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.

To digest. [Obs.] Bacon.

Digestion. [Obs.]

To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.