Verb

(en verb)

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

to digest laws

* Blair

joining them together and digesting them into order

* Shakespeare

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested .

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 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.

* Sir H. Sidney

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.

* Shakespeare

How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?

* Book of Common Prayer

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.

To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

* Coleridge

I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.

(chemistry) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

To undergo digestion.

Food digests well or badly.

(medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

(medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.

(obsolete) To ripen; to mature.

* Jeremy Taylor

well-digested fruits

(obsolete) To quieten or abate, as anger or grief.

Verb

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(label) To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up .

(label) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.

To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.

(label) To investigate, to research, often followed by out'' or ''up .

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To thrust; to poke.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

You should have seen children dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls.

Verb

(slang) To understand or show interest in.

You dig ?

(slang) To appreciate, or like.

Baby, I dig you.