digest¹ /di-jestˈ or dī-/

1. To dissolve in the stomach
2. To soften by heat and moisture (chem)
3. To distribute and arrange
4. To prepare or classify in the mind
5. To think over, to take in gradually, the meaning and implications of
6. To endure (eg an insult) without protest (old)

1. To be dissolved in the stomach
2. To be softened by heat and moisture

digestˈedly adverb (obsolete)

In neat order

digestˈer noun

1. Someone who digests
2. A closed vessel in which by heat and pressure strong extracts are made from animal and vegetable substances

digestibilˈity noun

digestˈible adjective

That may be digested

digestif /dē-zhes-tēf/ noun (French)

A drink taken as a digestive

digestion /di-jestˈyən/ noun

1. The dissolving of the food in the stomach
2. Orderly arrangement
3. Mental assimilation
4. Exposing to slow heat, etc (chem)

digestˈive adjective

1. Relating to digestion
2. Promoting digestion

1. Something that promotes digestion
2. (also digestive biscuit) a round, semi-sweet biscuit, the basic ingredient of which is wholemeal flour

digestˈively adverb

digestive tract noun

The alimentary canal

digest² /dīˈjest/

1. A body of laws collected and arranged, esp the Justinian code of civil laws
2. A synopsis
3. An abstract
4. A periodical abstract of news or current literature

• self-coloured
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• self-commitment
• self-communion
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• self-comparison
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• self-compatible
• self-complacence
• self-complacent
• self-conceit
• self-conceited
• self-conceitedness
• self-concentration
• self-concept
• self-concern
• self-condemnation
• self-condemnations
• self-condemned
• self-condemning
• self-confessed
• self-confidence
• self-confident
• self-confidently