Definition of digest

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Digest (v. t.) 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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Digestive :: Digestive (n.) That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine..
Masticate :: Masticate (v. t.) To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food..
Tryptic :: Tryptic (a.) Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion..
Recompilement :: Recompilement (n.) The act of recompiling; new compilation or digest; as, a recompilement of the laws..
Digest :: Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill..
Hemialbumose :: Hemialbumose (n.) An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner..
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.
Redigest :: Redigest (v. t.) To digest, or reduce to form, a second time..
Gastrovascular :: Gastrovascular (a.) Having the structure, or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of c/lenterates..
Vegetal :: Vegetal (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, that class of vital phenomena, such as digestion, absorption, assimilation, secretion, excretion, circulation, generation, etc., which are common to plants and animals, in distinction from sensation and volition, which are peculiar to animals..
Soy :: Soy (n.) A Chinese and Japanese liquid sauce for fish, etc., made by subjecting boiled beans (esp. soja beans), or beans and meal, to long fermentation and then long digestion in salt and water..
Digestor :: Digestor (n.) See Digester.
Crudity :: Crudity (n.) That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form..
Redact :: Redact (v. t.) To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit..
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief..
Pandect :: Pandect (n.) The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law..
Light :: Light (superl.) Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment..
Undigestible :: Undigestible (a.) Indigestible.
Inconcoction :: Inconcoction (n.) The state of being undigested; unripeness; immaturity.
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