digestern.

/dɪˈdʒɛstə/

/dʌɪˈdʒɛstə/

Forms: Also 1600s -or.

Etymology: < digest v. + -er suffix¹.

He who or that which digests.

†1. That which distributes, disperses, or dissipates (humours). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing

resolutivea1400

resolver?a1450

digester1578

discussive1583

discutient1585

discusser1617

resolvent1676

incider1722

incisive1726

incident1753

discutant1817

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxiii. 109 All the Scabiouses are..digesters and diuiders of grosse humors.

2. One who analyses, arranges, and reduces to order, a mass of information; the maker of a digest.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > [noun] > one who arranges information

digester1677

1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica i. ii. i. viii. 66 Varro a learned Digester of Antiquities.

1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 7) 432 I would recommend to..the new Digester of our Laws, not to be too subtle in the process.

1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. iv. §44. 130 To come into direct contact with facts, instead of receiving them at second hand through digesters and generalizers.

1885 G. W. Hemming in Law Q. Rev. 297 The Digester should..revise every catch-word in the Reports.

a. That which digests or promotes the digestion of food; a digestive agent or organ.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > digestibility > substance promoting digestion

digestivec1386

digester1609

digestif1908

1609 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet i. xxxi. f. 46 Galingale..is a digester of meate.

a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Miscellanea: 3rd Pt. (1701) 174 Rue is..a great Digester and Restorer of Appetite.

1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Viscum The Stomachs of these Birds are too powerful Digesters to suffer any Seeds to pass intire through the Intestines.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §97 Its great virtues as a digester and deobstruent.

b. A person or animal that digests its food (well or ill); figurative one who digests mentally.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [noun] > one who takes note

marker1531

observer1555

digester1713

observist1827

spotter1913

the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > one who digests

digester1713

1713 Guardian 20 May 1/1 The generality of Readers..must..be allowed to be notable Digesters.

1713 Guardian 24 Aug. 1/2 As great Princes keep their Taster, so I perceive you keep your Digester.

1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins xxii. 293 People that are bilious, and fat rather than lean; great Eaters and ill Digesters.

a. A strong close vessel in which bones or other substances may be subjected to the action of water or other liquid at a temperature and pressure above those of the boiling point, so as to be dissolved.In its original form called from its inventor, Papin's digester.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > others

aludela1400

sublimatoryc1405

rotumbea1475

capel1527

firepot1595

digestory1676

digester1681

capsule1727

pneumatic trough1800

receiver1808

collector1860

cartridge1920

1681 D. Papin (title) A New Digester, or Engine for softening Bones.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 278 I went..to a Supper,..which was all dressed (both fish & flesh) in Monsieur Papins Digestorie; by which the hardest bones of Biefe itselfe, & Mutton, were..made as soft as Cheeze.

1708 J. Keill Acct. Animal Secretion i. 122 The Jelly extorted by Papin's Digester out of dry and solid Bones.

1784 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 415 A cast-iron vessel, which I could close at one end, like a digester.

1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) II. 412 A close vessel, which is called Papin's digester; in which it is said water may be made red hot.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 10/2 The vessel which contained the explosive used at the Admiralty Offices..was what is known as a digester or stock pot, such as is used in kitchens.

b. An apparatus in which the carcasses of beasts unfit for food are by the action of heat dissolved into their proximate elements, tallow, gelatine, earthy phosphates, etc.

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 702/2.

1892 Daily News 26 Oct. 3/5 Animals and carcases should be removed in..enclosed vans, the animals at once slaughtered..and the carcases destroyed in a digester.

c. An apparatus whereby substances are dissolved by chemical action instead of by heat and pressure.

d. Paper-making. An apparatus in which wood, grass, etc., are turned into pulp by the action of hot water, chemicals, etc.

ΚΠ

1898 Sci. Amer. 78 185/3 The digester is filled to the top with chips..and the acid is then piped in.

1906 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 206/2 These pieces [of wood]..are fed into a ‘digester’, which in some cases is large enough to produce fifteen tons of pulp at one operation.

1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 19 The chips are then blown up to the top of the wood-boiling house into large silos, from which the digesters are filled.

1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper i. 13 The principle was to boil the wood with soda in digesters.

Draft additions October 2021

A tank or apparatus in which organic waste material, typically sewage, is decomposed by microbial action; a biodigester or anaerobic digester.

ΚΠ

1912 Public Health Jrnl. 3 115/2 Many of the tanks constructed in the last five years have been more correctly called sedimentation tanks, sludge removers, rather than sludge digesters.

1967 Jrnl. Water Pollution Control Federation 39 368/2 In digester operation it is important to..mix the digester contents well and preferably continuously.

2021 N.Z. Herald 12 Apr. Community scale biogas digesters have long existed in Denmark, UK, Germany for processing a range of organic wastes into bio-methane gas and the effluent by-product used for soil conditioning.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	digester
释义	digestern. /dɪˈdʒɛstə//dʌɪˈdʒɛstə/ Forms: Also 1600s -or. Etymology: < digest v. + -er suffix¹. He who or that which digests. †1. That which distributes, disperses, or dissipates (humours). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > [noun] > medicine resolving or dispersing resolutivea1400 resolver?a1450 digester1578 discussive1583 discutient1585 discusser1617 resolvent1676 incider1722 incisive1726 incident1753 discutant1817 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxxiii. 109 All the Scabiouses are..digesters and diuiders of grosse humors. 2. One who analyses, arranges, and reduces to order, a mass of information; the maker of a digest. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > [noun] > one who arranges information digester1677 1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica i. ii. i. viii. 66 Varro a learned Digester of Antiquities. 1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV (ed. 7) 432 I would recommend to..the new Digester of our Laws, not to be too subtle in the process. 1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. iv. §44. 130 To come into direct contact with facts, instead of receiving them at second hand through digesters and generalizers. 1885 G. W. Hemming in Law Q. Rev. 297 The Digester should..revise every catch-word in the Reports. 3. a. That which digests or promotes the digestion of food; a digestive agent or organ. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > digestibility > substance promoting digestion digestivec1386 digester1609 digestif1908 1609 W. B. tr. Philosophers Banquet i. xxxi. f. 46 Galingale..is a digester of meate. a1699 W. Temple Ess. Health & Long Life in Miscellanea: 3rd Pt. (1701) 174 Rue is..a great Digester and Restorer of Appetite. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Viscum The Stomachs of these Birds are too powerful Digesters to suffer any Seeds to pass intire through the Intestines. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §97 Its great virtues as a digester and deobstruent. b. A person or animal that digests its food (well or ill); figurative one who digests mentally. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > [noun] > one who takes note marker1531 observer1555 digester1713 observist1827 spotter1913 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > one who digests digester1713 1713 Guardian 20 May 1/1 The generality of Readers..must..be allowed to be notable Digesters. 1713 Guardian 24 Aug. 1/2 As great Princes keep their Taster, so I perceive you keep your Digester. 1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins xxii. 293 People that are bilious, and fat rather than lean; great Eaters and ill Digesters. 4. a. A strong close vessel in which bones or other substances may be subjected to the action of water or other liquid at a temperature and pressure above those of the boiling point, so as to be dissolved.In its original form called from its inventor, Papin's digester. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > others aludela1400 sublimatoryc1405 rotumbea1475 capel1527 firepot1595 digestory1676 digester1681 capsule1727 pneumatic trough1800 receiver1808 collector1860 cartridge1920 1681 D. Papin (title) A New Digester, or Engine for softening Bones. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 278 I went..to a Supper,..which was all dressed (both fish & flesh) in Monsieur Papins Digestorie; by which the hardest bones of Biefe itselfe, & Mutton, were..made as soft as Cheeze. 1708 J. Keill Acct. Animal Secretion i. 122 The Jelly extorted by Papin's Digester out of dry and solid Bones. 1784 J. Priestley in Philos. Trans. 1783 (Royal Soc.) 73 415 A cast-iron vessel, which I could close at one end, like a digester. 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) II. 412 A close vessel, which is called Papin's digester; in which it is said water may be made red hot. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 4 May 10/2 The vessel which contained the explosive used at the Admiralty Offices..was what is known as a digester or stock pot, such as is used in kitchens. b. An apparatus in which the carcasses of beasts unfit for food are by the action of heat dissolved into their proximate elements, tallow, gelatine, earthy phosphates, etc. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 702/2. 1892 Daily News 26 Oct. 3/5 Animals and carcases should be removed in..enclosed vans, the animals at once slaughtered..and the carcases destroyed in a digester. c. An apparatus whereby substances are dissolved by chemical action instead of by heat and pressure. d. Paper-making. An apparatus in which wood, grass, etc., are turned into pulp by the action of hot water, chemicals, etc. ΚΠ 1898 Sci. Amer. 78 185/3 The digester is filled to the top with chips..and the acid is then piped in. 1906 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 206/2 These pieces [of wood]..are fed into a ‘digester’, which in some cases is large enough to produce fifteen tons of pulp at one operation. 1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 19 The chips are then blown up to the top of the wood-boiling house into large silos, from which the digesters are filled. 1962 F. T. Day Introd. to Paper i. 13 The principle was to boil the wood with soda in digesters. Draft additions October 2021 A tank or apparatus in which organic waste material, typically sewage, is decomposed by microbial action; a biodigester or anaerobic digester. ΚΠ 1912 Public Health Jrnl. 3 115/2 Many of the tanks constructed in the last five years have been more correctly called sedimentation tanks, sludge removers, rather than sludge digesters. 1967 Jrnl. Water Pollution Control Federation 39 368/2 In digester operation it is important to..mix the digester contents well and preferably continuously. 2021 N.Z. Herald 12 Apr. Community scale biogas digesters have long existed in Denmark, UK, Germany for processing a range of organic wastes into bio-methane gas and the effluent by-product used for soil conditioning. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1578
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