"Digest" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A collection or compllation, embodying the chief, matter of numerous books in one, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement, for facility in reference
Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be
reconciled to; to brook.
To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
That which is digested; especially, that which is worked
over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
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.
To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an
ulcer or wound.
To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
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.
To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
To ripen; to mature.
To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle
heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and
classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to
digest the laws, etc.
A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically
arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of
Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to
compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as,
Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest.
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