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Digest   /daɪdʒˈɛst/  /dˈaɪdʒɛst/   Listen
Digest

noun
1.
A periodical that summarizes the news.
2.
Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file).  Synonym: compilation.
verb
(past & past part. digested; pres. part. digesting)
1.
Convert food into absorbable substances.
2.
Arrange and integrate in the mind.
3.
Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.  Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate.  "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks" , "He learned to tolerate the heat" , "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
4.
Become assimilated into the body.
5.
Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing.
6.
Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture.
7.
Make more concise.  Synonyms: concentrate, condense.
8.
Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.



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"Digest" Quotes from Famous Books



... Such a digest shows better than any generalization a complete confusion of poetic and rhetoric. Poems were to be written according to the formulae of orations; allegory throve. Infinite pains were to be expended on the worthless niceties of conceited metrical structure and rhetorical figures. Garland has neither ...
— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism • Donald Lemen Clark
... my dear, but it cannot be helped," replied her mother, and having given them the unpleasant tidings to digest as best they might, Mrs. Arlington returned ...
— Isabel Leicester - A Romance • Clotilda Jennings
... persuasion, that the loss of his leg in that service was sufficient punishment. The guilt of his wife, Bertrande de Rols, was thought even more apparent, and that a woman could be deceived in her husband was a proposition few could digest. Yet, as the woman's life-long character was good, and it spoke well for her that not only the population of Artigues, but also the man's four sisters, had shared her delusion, it was ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous
... wasted, they lose their susceptibility to stimuli, and the food does no good. Thus patients become emaciated during acute attacks of disease, upon the cessation of which they are too feeble to recover, simply because they have lost the power to digest and ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce
... Testament: with a critically-revised Text; a Digest of Various Readings; Marginal References to Verbal and Idiomatic Usage; Prolegomena; and a Critical and Exegetical Commentary. For the Use of Theological Students and Ministers. By Henry Alford, D.D., Dean of Canterbury. Vol. I., containing the Four Gospels. 944 pages, ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker


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