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predigestion|priːdɪˈdʒɛstjən, -daɪ-|
[f. pre- A. 2 + digestion; so F. prédigestion.]
†1. Premature or over-hasty digestion. Obs.
1607–12Bacon Ess., Dispatch (Arb.) 242 Affected dispatch..is like that which the Phisitians call pre-digestion, or hastie digestion, which is sure to fill the body full of Crudities, and secrett seedes of diseases. 1698F. Manning Poems ii. (1701) 21 Seeming-Wits, whose hasty Vein Betrays a Pre-digestion in the Brain.
2. Digestion (of food) by artificial means before introduction into the stomach.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 135 After a time the degree of predigestion should be very gradually lessened. 1900Ibid. V. 618 Milk cannot with safety be submitted for any great length of time to pre⁓digestion. |