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D0218400 (dī-jĕst′, dĭ-)v. di·gest·ed, di·gest·ing, di·gests v.tr.1. To convert (food) into simpler chemical compounds that can be absorbed and assimilated by an organism, as by chemical and muscular action in the digestive tract.2. To think over so as to understand; absorb or assimilate: It took a minute to digest the implications of the remark.3. a. To organize into a systematic arrangement, usually by summarizing or classifying.b. To condense or abridge (a written work).4. Biochemistry To decompose (organic compounds), especially by the action of enzymes or bacteria.5. Chemistry To soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.v.intr.1. a. To become assimilated into the body.b. To assimilate food substances.2. Biochemistry To undergo decomposition, especially by the action of enzymes or bacteria.3. Chemistry To undergo exposure to heat, liquids, or chemical agents.n. (dī′jĕst′)1. A collection of previously published material, such as articles, essays, or reports, usually in edited or condensed form.2. Law A systematic arrangement of abstracts from court decisions designed to simplify the locating of relevant case law.3. A periodical containing literary abridgments or other condensed works.4. Digest See pandect.5. A product of biochemical digestion: purifying the peptides in a digest.

[Middle English digesten, from Latin dīgerere, dīgest-, to separate, arrange : dī-, dis-, apart; see dis- + gerere, to carry. N., from Latin dīgesta, neuter pl. of dīgestus, past participle of dīgerere, to separate.]

digest

vb 1. (Physiology) to subject (food) to a process of digestion 2. (Psychology) (tr) to assimilate mentally 3. (Chemistry) chem to soften or disintegrate or be softened or disintegrated by the action of heat, moisture, or chemicals; decompose 4. (tr) to arrange in a methodical or systematic order; classify 5. (tr) to reduce to a summary 6. (tr) archaic to tolerate n 7. (Library Science & Bibliography) a comprehensive and systematic compilation of information or material, often condensed 8. (Journalism & Publishing) a magazine, periodical, etc, that summarizes news of current events 9. (Law) a compilation of rules of law based on decided cases [C14: from Late Latin dīgesta writings grouped under various heads, from Latin dīgerere to divide, from di- apart + gerere to bear]

Digest

(ˈdaɪdʒɛst) n1. (Law) Roman law an arrangement of excerpts from the writings and opinions of eminent lawyers, contained in 50 books compiled by order of Justinian in the sixth century ad2. (Historical Terms) Roman law an arrangement of excerpts from the writings and opinions of eminent lawyers, contained in 50 books compiled by order of Justinian in the sixth century ad

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(v. dɪˈdʒɛst, daɪ-; n. ˈdaɪ dʒɛst)

v.t. 1. to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into a form that can be assimilated by the body. 2. to promote the digestion of (food). 3. to obtain ideas or meaning from; assimilate mentally: to digest an article on nuclear energy. 4. to think over; ponder. 5. to bear with patience; endure. 6. to arrange in convenient or methodical order; reduce to a system; classify. 7. to condense, abridge, or summarize. 8. to soften or disintegrate (a substance), as by moisture, heat, or chemical action. v.i. 9. to digest food. 10. to undergo digestion. n. 11. a collection or compendium, as of literary or scientific matter, esp. when classified or condensed. 12. a systematic abstract of some body of law. [1350–1400; (v.) Middle English < Latin dīgestus, past participle of dīgerere to disperse =dī- di-² + gerere to carry; (n.) Middle English: collection of laws < Latin dīgesta, neuter pl. of dīgestus] di•gest′ed•ly, adv. di•gest′ed•ness, n. syn: See summary.

Digest

a condensed or digested collection of fiction or of statements or information.Examples: digest of laws, 1626; of scriptural text, 1825.

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Past participle: digested
Gerund: digesting

Imperative
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Present
I digest
you digest
he/she/it digests
we digest
you digest
they digest

Preterite
I digested
you digested
he/she/it digested
we digested
you digested
they digested

Present Continuous
I am digesting
you are digesting
he/she/it is digesting
we are digesting
you are digesting
they are digesting

Present Perfect
I have digested
you have digested
he/she/it has digested
we have digested
you have digested
they have digested

Past Continuous
I was digesting
you were digesting
he/she/it was digesting
we were digesting
you were digesting
they were digesting

Past Perfect
I had digested
you had digested
he/she/it had digested
we had digested
you had digested
they had digested

Future
I will digest
you will digest
he/she/it will digest
we will digest
you will digest
they will digest

Future Perfect
I will have digested
you will have digested
he/she/it will have digested
we will have digested
you will have digested
they will have digested

Future Continuous
I will be digesting
you will be digesting
he/she/it will be digesting
we will be digesting
you will be digesting
they will be digesting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been digesting
you have been digesting
he/she/it has been digesting
we have been digesting
you have been digesting
they have been digesting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been digesting
you will have been digesting
he/she/it will have been digesting
we will have been digesting
you will have been digesting
they will have been digesting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been digesting
you had been digesting
he/she/it had been digesting
we had been digesting
you had been digesting
they had been digesting

Conditional
I would digest
you would digest
he/she/it would digest
we would digest
you would digest
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Past Conditional
I would have digested
you would have digested
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we would have digested
you would have digested
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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	digest - a periodical that summarizes the newsperiodical - a publication that appears at fixed intervals
	2.	digest - something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)compilationcompendium, collection - a publication containing a variety of works
Verb	1.	digest - convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"digest - become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"process, treat - subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"stomach - bear to eat; "He cannot stomach raw fish"predigest - digest (food) beforehand
	2.	digest - arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"apprehend, comprehend, get the picture, grok, savvy, grasp, compass, dig - get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?"
	3.	digest - put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"brook, endure, tolerate, abide, stomach, bear, stick out, suffer, put up, stand, supportlive with, swallow, accept - tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"hold still for, stand for - tolerate or bear; "I won't stand for this kind of behavior!"bear up - endure cheerfully; "She bore up under the enormous strain"take lying down - suffer without protest; suffer or endure passively; "I won't take this insult lying down"take a joke - listen to a joke at one's own expense; "Can't you take a joke?"sit out - endure to the endpay - bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later"countenance, permit, allow, let - consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"suffer - experience (emotional) pain; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers"
	4.	digest - become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"digest - convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"
	5.	digest - systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"systematise, systematize, systemise, systemize - arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge"
	6.	digest - soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisturedigest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisturedisintegrate - break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died"
	7.	digest - make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary"condense, concentrateabbreviate, abridge, foreshorten, shorten, contract, reduce, cut - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"capsule, capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate - put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume; "capsulize the news"telescope - make smaller or shorter; "the novel was telescoped into a short play"
	8.	digest - soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisturedecompose, break down, break up - separate (substances) into constituent elements or partsdigest - soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

digest

verb1. ingest, absorb, incorporate, dissolve, assimilate She couldn't digest food properly.2. take in, master, absorb, grasp, drink in, soak up, devour, assimilate She read everything, digesting every fragment of news.noun1. summary, résumé, abstract, epitome, condensation, compendium, synopsis, précis, abridgment a regular digest of environmental statistics

digest

verbTo take in and incorporate, especially mentally:absorb, assimilate, imbibe, take up.Informal: soak (up).

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digest

(daiˈdʒest) verb1. to break up (food) in the stomach etc and turn it into a form which the body can use. The invalid had to have food that was easy to digest.消化2. to take in and think over (information etc). It took me some minutes to digest what he had said.领会 noun summary; brief account. a digest of the week's news.摘要diˈgestible adjective able to be digested. This food is scarcely digestible.可消化的diˈgestion (-tʃən) noun1. the act of digesting food. 消化2. the ability of one's body to digest food. poor digestion.消化力diˈgestive (-tiv) adjective of digestion. the human digestive system.消化的

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Digest

A collection or compilation that embodies the chief matter of numerous books, articles, court decisions, and so on, disposed under proper heads or titles, and usually by an alphabetical arrangement, for facility in reference.

An index to reported cases, providing brief statements of court holdings or facts of cases, which is arranged by subject and subdivided by jurisdiction and courts.

As a legal term, digest is to be distinguished from abridgment. The latter is a summary of the contents of a single work, in which, as a rule, the original order or sequence of parts is preserved, and in which the principal labor of the compiler is in the matter of consolidation. A digest is wider in its scope, is made up of quotations or paraphrased passages, and has its own system of classification and arrangement. An index merely points out the places where particular matters may be found, without purporting to give such matters in extenso. A treatise or commentary is not a compilation, but an original composition, though it may include quotations and excerpts.

digest

1 a compilation of rules of law, the most famous being the Digest of Justinian, the heart of the CORPUS JURIS CIVILIS, sometimes also known as the Pandects. 2 a collection of case summaries that have the holding in the case noted briefly. Digests completely lack any attempt at synthesis but are usually very usefully cross-referenced and indexed.

DIGEST, civil law. The name sometimes given to the Pandects of Justinian; it is so called because this compilation is reduced to order, quasi digestiae.
2. It is an abridgment of the decisions of the praetors and the works of the learned, and ancient writers on the law. It was made by order of the emperor Justinian, who, in 530, published an ordinance entitled De Conceptione Digestorum, which was addressed to Tribonian, and by which he was required to select some of the most distinguished lawyers to assist him in composing a collection of the best decisions of the ancient lawyers, and compile them is fifty books, without confusion or contradiction. The work was immediately commenced, and completed on the 16th of December, 533.
3. The Digest is divided in two different ways; the first, into fifty books, each book into several titles, and each title into several laws at the head of each of them is the name of the lawyer from. whose work it was taken.
4.-1. The first book contains twenty-two titles; the subject of the first is De justicia et jure; of the division of person and things; of magistrates, &c.
5.-2. The second, divided into fifteen titles, treats of the power of magistrates and their jurisdiction; the manner of commencing suits; of agreements and compromises.
6.-3. The third, composed of six titles, treats of those who can and those who cannot sue; of advocates and attorneys and syndics; and of calumny.
7.-4. The fourth, divided into nine titles, treats of causes of restitution of submissions and arbitrations; of minors, carriers by water, innkeepers and those who have the care of the property of others.
8.-5. In the fifth there are six titles, which. treat of jurisdiction and inofficious testaments.
9.-6. The subject, of the sixth, in which there are three titles, is actions.
10.-7. The seventh, in nine titles, embraces whatever concerns usufructs, personal servitudes, habitations, the uses of real estate, and its appurtenances, and of the sureties required of the usufructuary.
11.-8. The eighth book, in six titles, regulates urban and rural servitudes.
12.-9. The ninth book, in four titles, explains certain personal actions.
13.-10. The tenth, in four titles, treats of mixed actions.
14.-11. The object of the eleventh book, containing eight titles, is to regulate interrogatories, the cases of which the judge was to take cognizance, fugitive slaves, of gamblers, of surveyors who made false reports, and of funerals and funeral expenses.
15.-12. The twelfth book, in seven titles, regulates personal actions in which the plaintiff claims the title of a thing.
16.-13. The thirteenth, treats of certain particular actions, in seven titles.
17.-14. This, like the last, regulates certain actions: it has six titles.
18.-15. The fifteenth, in four titles, treats of actions for which a father or master is liable, in consequence of the acts of his children or slaves, and those to which he is entitled; of the peculium of children and slaves, and of the actions on this right.
19.-16. The sixteenth, in three titles, contains the law. relating to the senatus consultum velleianum, of compensation or set off, and of the action of deposit.
20.-17. The seventeenth, in two titles, expounds the law of mandates and partnership.
21.-18. The eighteenth book, in seven titles, explains the contract of sale.
22.-19. The nineteenth, in five titles, treats of the actions which arise on a contract of sale.
23.-20. The law relating to pawns, hypothecation, the preference among creditors, and subrogation, occupy the twentieth book, which contains six titles.
24.-21. The twenty-first book, explains under three titles, the edict of the ediles relating to the sale of slaves and animals; then what relates to evictions and warranties.
25.-22. The twenty-second treats of interest, profits and accessories of things, proofs, presumptions, and of ignorance of law and fact. It is divided into six titles.
26.-23. The twenty-third, in five titles, contains the law of marriage, and its accompanying agreements.
27.-24. The twenty-fourth, in three titles, regulates donations between husband and wife, divorces, and their consequence.
28.-25. The twenty-fifth is a continuation of the subject of the preceding. It contains seven titles.
29.-26 and 27. These two books, each in two titles, contain the law relating to tutorship and curatorship.
30.-28. The twenty-eighth, in eight titles, contain's the law on last wills and testaments.
31.-29. The twenty-ninth, in seven titles, is the continuation of the twenty-eighth book.
32.-30, 31, and 32. These three books, each divided into two titles, contain the law of trusts and specific legacies.
33.-33, 34, and 35. The first of these, divided into ten titles; the second, into nine titles; and the last into three titles, treat of various kinds of legacies.
34.-36. The thirty-sixth, containing four titles, explains the senatus consultum trebellianum, and the time when trusts become due.
35.-37. This book, containing fifteen titles, has two objects first, to regulate successions; and, secondly, the respect which children owe their parents, and freedmen their patrons.
36.-38. The thirty-eighth book, in seventeen titles, treats of a variety of subjects; of successions, and of the degree of kindred in successions; of possession; and of heirs.
37.-39. The thirty-ninth explains the means which the law and the prAEtor take to prevent a threatened iNjury; and donations inter vivos and mortis causa.
38.-40. The fortieth, in sixteen titles, treats of the state and condition of persons, and of what relates to freedmen and liberty.
39.-41. The different means of acquiring and losing title to property, are explained in the forty-first book, in ten titles.
40.-42. The forty-second, in eight titles, treats of the res judicata, and of the seizure and sale of the property of a debtor.
41.-43. Interdicts or possessory actions are the object of the forty-third book, in three titles.
42.-44. The forty-fourth contains an enumeration of defences which arise in consequence of the res judicata, from the lapse of time, prescription, andthe like. This occupies six titles; the seventh treats of obligations and actions.
43.-45. This speaks of stipulations, by freedmen, or by slaves. It contains only three titles.
44.-46. This book, in eight titles, treats of securities, novations, and delegations, payments, releases, and acceptilations.
45.-47. In the forty-seventh book are explained the punishments inflicted for private crimes, de privates delictis, among which are included larcenies, slander, libels, offences against religion, and public manners, removing boundaries, and other similar offences.
46.-48. This book treats of public crimes, among which are enumerated those Iaesae majestatis, adultery, murder, poisoning, parricide, extortion, and the like, with rules for procedure in such cases.
47.-49. The forty-ninth, in eighteen titles, treats of appeals, of the rights of the public treasury, of those who are in captivity, and of their repurchase.
48.-50. The last book, in seventeen titles, explains the rights of municipalities. and then treats of a variety of public officers.
49. Besides this division, Justinian made another, in which the fifty books were divided into seven parts: The first contains the first four books; the second, from the fifth to the eleventh book inclusive; the third, from the twelfth to the nineteenth inclusive; the fourth, from title twentieth to the twenty-seventh inclusive; the fifth, from the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth inclusive the sixth, commenced with the thirty seventh, and ended with the forty-fourth book; and the seventh or last was composed of the last six books.
50. A third division, which, however, is said not to have been made by Justinian, is in three parts. The first, called digestum vetus, because it was the first printed. It commences with the first book, and. includes the work to the end of the second title of the twenty-fourth book. The second, called digestum infortiatum, because it is supported or fortified by the other two, it being the middle; it commences with the beginning of the third title of the twenty-fourth book and ends with the thirty-eighth. The third, which begins with the thirty-ninth book and ends with the work, is called digestum novum, because it was last printed.
51. The Digest, although, compiled in Constantinople, was originally written in Latin, and afterwards translated into Greek.
52. This work was lost to all Europe during a considerable period, as indeed all the law works of Justinian were, except some fragments of the Code and Novels. During the pillage of Amalphi, in the war between the two soi-disant popes Innocent II. and Anaclet II., a soldier discovered an old manuscript, which attracted his attention by its envelope of many colors. It was carried to the emperor, Clothaire II., and proved to be the Pandects of Justinian. The work was arranged in its present order by Warner, a German, whose name, Latinised, is Irnerius, who was appointed professor of Roman law at Bologna, by that emperor. 1 Fournel, Hist. des Avocats, 44, 46, 51.
53. The Pandects contain all whatsoever Justinian drew out of 150,000 verses of the old books of the Roman law. The style of the Digest is very grave and pure, and differs not much from the eloquentist speech that ever the Romans used." The learning of the digest stands rather in the discussing of subtle questions of law, and enumerations of the variety of opinions of ancient lawyers thereupon, than in practical matters of daily use. The Code of Justinian differs in these respects from, the Digest. It is less methodical, but more practical; the style however, is a barbarous Thracian phrase Latinised, such as never any mean Latinist spoke. The work is otherwise rude and unskillful. Ridley's View of the Civ. & Ecc. Law, pt. 1, ch. 2, Sec. 1, and ch. 1, Sec. 2.
54. Different opinions are entertained upon the merits of the Digest, or Pandects, Code, Authentics and Feuds, as a system of jurisprudence. By some it has been severely criticised, and even harshly censured, and by others as warmly defended the one party discovering nothing but defects, and the other as obstinately determined to find nothing but what is good and valuable. See Felangieri della Legislazione, vol. 1, c. 7. It must be confessed that it is not without defects. It might have been comprehended in less extent, and in some parts arranged in better order. It must be confessed also that it is less congenial as a whole, with the principles of free government, than the common law of England. Yet, with all these defects, it is a rich fountain of learning and reason; and of this monument of the high culture and wisdom of the Roman jurists it may be said, as of all other works in which the good so much surpasses the bad.
Ut plura intent in carmine non ego paucis
Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit
Aut humana parum cavit natura.
HORAT. ART. POETIC, v. 351.

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verb ingest

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verb take in

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noun summary

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verb to take in and incorporate, especially mentally

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noun a periodical that summarizes the news

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noun something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)

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verb convert food into absorbable substances

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verb arrange and integrate in the mind

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verb put up with something or somebody unpleasant

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verb become assimilated into the body

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verb systematize, as by classifying and summarizing

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verb soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

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verb make more concise

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verb soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

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