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Digestive   /daɪdʒˈɛstɪv/   Listen
adjective
Digestive  adj.  Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. "Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be."
Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.
Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.



noun
Digestive  n.  
1.
That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. "That digestive (a cigar) had become to me as necessary as the meal itself."
2.
(Med.)
(a)
A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.
(b)
A tonic. (R.)






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... others from mediocrity to distinction. The Delsarte system is founded upon the idea that man is a triplicity of physical, emotional, and intellectual qualities or attributes, and that the entire body and every part thereof conforms to, and expresses this triplicity. The generative and digestive region corresponds with the physical nature, the breast with the emotional, and the head with the intellectual; "below" represents the nadir of ignorance and dejection, "above" the zenith of wisdom and spiritual power. This seems ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon

... of birds are included in this order. First, there are the Ostriches, which are the envy of all people cursed with weak digestive powers; then there is the Dodo, with its mysterious and half-told history; also the Bustards, the Coursers, the Plovers, the Cranes, the Storks, the Sandpipers, the Snipes, &c. These varieties of wading birds are carefully classed, and represented ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold

... were signing it, the notary raising the little glass window at the front, would entertain the assembly with some local legends, always decent, without any illusions to the sins of the flesh, but always those in which the digestive organs figured with every degree of license. The clients would roar with laughter, captivated by this funny eschatalogy, and would haggle less in the matter of fees. Famous Don Esteban!... Just for the pleasure of hearing his yarns they would have liked a legal paper ...
— Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) - A Novel • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... are a useful medicine for children. Made into tea, and sweetened with molasses, they are very beneficial, when the system is in a restricted state, and the digestive powers out ...
— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child

... arrangements with the natives who bring them to the market-places. It is popularly supposed that the durian is an aphrodisiac, but that is not the case. Any food or fruit that one greatly enjoys acts favourably on the digestive organs, and therefore makes one feel ...
— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz


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