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ly; 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.…

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Digestion. [Obs.] Harvey.

Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. [Obs.] "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.

Not digested; undigested. "Indigested food." Dryden.

The state or quality of being undigested; crudeness. Bp. Burnet.

The state or quality of being indigestible; indigestibleness.

Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.

Lack of proper digestive action; a failure of the normal changes which food should undergo in the alimentary canal; dyspepsia; incomplete or difficult digestion.

To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.

Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion. [Obs.] Bacon.

To digest, or reduce to form, a second time. Kent.

Indigestible.