predigestionn.
/ˌpriːdʌɪˈdʒɛstʃn/, U.S. /ˌpridaɪˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/, /ˌpridaɪˈdʒɛʃtʃ(ə)n/, /ˌpridəˈdʒɛʃtʃ(ə)n/, /ˌpridəˈdʒɛstʃ(ə)n/ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > [noun] > indigestion
cardiac passiona1398
rawnessa1398
heartburnc1440
rawhead1440
heart-burningc1450
undigestionc1450
indigestion1495
crudeness1541
crudity1541
bradypepsy1605
predigestion1612
heart-scald1628
indigestiblenessa1631
dyspepsy1656
unconcoction1662
apepsy1678
incoction1684
soda1693
dyspepsia1706
cardialgia1710
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 69 Affected dispatch..is like that which the Physitians call pre-digestion, or hastie digestion, which is sure to fill the bodie full of crudities, and secret seedes of diseases.
1633 C. Aleyn Battailes Crescey & Poictiers (ed. 2) 101 Actions are weakened with too hasty speed, Thus predigestion doth diseases breed.
1698 F. Manning Poems (1701) ii. 21 Seeming-Wits, whose hasty Vein Betrays a Pre-digestion in the Brain.
1823 Times 6 June 2/5 Lord Bacon compared despatch in a judge to predigestion in the natural body.
1871 L. Colange Zell's Pop. Encycl. II. 657/1 Predigestion, digestion too soon performed.
2. The process of initiating the digestion of food prior to ingestion; treatment of organic matter with enzymes prior to another treatment or process. Cf. peptonization n.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > general preparation processes > [noun] > treatment to make digestible
predigestion1883
ricing1893
pancreatization1897
1883 Lancet 6 Oct. 591/1 The portable peptonising apparatus..will be found most useful for the predigestion of milk, soup, jelly, beef-tea, and other articles of invalid diet.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 135 After a time the degree of predigestion should be very gradually lessened.
1968 Brain 91 454 The PAS-positive material in the muscle fibres was identified by staining serial sections after predigestion with diastase.
1993 Jrnl. Nutrition 123 893 Nearly the same degree of decomposition of amino acid residues was observed in casein ozonated after predigestion by pepsin.
3. figurative. The action or fact of abridging, condensing, or summarizing a text, a body of knowledge, etc., in order to make it easier to understand or assimilate.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > [noun] > summarizing or abridging
bridginga1425
breviation1509
abbreviating1548
abridgement1579
contracting1585
curtailing1586
contraction1655
condensation1798
curtailment1799
epitomization1805
summarizing1808
entailment1822
boiling1898
predigestion1904
1904 School Rev. 12 782 What kindergarten devices, child-study, and pedagogical predigestion can do to make learning attractive.
1927 Amer. Hist. Rev. 32 662 Too much predigestion in a source-book is unwholesome. It is not a bad thing for the student of public problems to have to do some hunting for what he wants.
1962 J. P. Mackintosh Brit. Cabinet i. 4 The Cabinet..discussed with little pre-digestion and no secretarial assistance all the issues of any importance.
1997 A. H. Williams in V. P. Varma Stress in Psychotherapists v. 61 The failure of the patient to accept back his or her own content somewhat modified by the pre-digestion of it carried out by the therapist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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