digesteth

Verb

digest (third-person singular simple present digests, present participle digesting, simple past and past participle digested)

1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
   • to digest laws

   Synonyms:

   arrange, sort, sort out

2. (transitive) 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.
   • In the morning giue them [horses] barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not...1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner]; Edward Topsell, “Of Handling, Taming, or Breaking of Horsses”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London: […] William Iaggard, →OCLC, page...
3. (transitive) To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
   • Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.1566, Henry Sidney, letter to Philip Sidney

   Synonyms:

   sort out

4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
   • I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk - Toleration-Norwegians
5. (transitive) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.
   • I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.

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