Crossword-Solution: DIGEST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Digest | v. t. | To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc. |
| Digest | v. t. | To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme. |
| Digest | v. t. | To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend. |
| Digest | v. t. | To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. |
| Digest | v. t. | Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. |
| Digest | v. t. | To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. |
| Digest | v. t. | To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. |
| Digest | v. t. | To ripen; to mature. |
| Digest | v. t. | To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. |
| Digest | v. i. | To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. |
| Digest | v. i. | To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. |
| Digest | v. t. | That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles |
| Digest | v. t. | A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also specially given by authors to compilations of laws on particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the United States Digest. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DIGEST | anagram | GISTED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DIGEST (5)
Therefore what he gives (Whose praise be ever sung) to man in part Spiritual, may of purest Spirits be found No ingrateful food: and food alike those pure Intelligential substances require As doth your Rational; and both contain Within them every lower facultie Of sense, whereby they hear, see, smell, touch, taste, Tasting concoct, digest, assimilate, And corporeal to incorporeal turn.
The service which he rendered to letters during the last five years of his life, amid ten thousand distractions and vexations, increase the regret with which we think on the many years which he had wasted, to use the words of Sir Thomas Bodley, “on such study as was not worthy such a student.” He commenced a digest of the laws of England, a History of England under the Princes of the House of Tudor, a body of National History, a Philosophical Romance.
The best way to use a listserver is to avail yourself of the "SET PDQFAN DIGEST" or "SET DIGEST" command so that you get the (daily?) mailing as a newspaper and not as a series of fifty or so mail messages interspersed throughout the day.
What can a boy _not_ digest? The substance in question has never been found yet.” “What did he see in the eating-house?” I asked.
One class, constituting, perhaps, not more than one-tenth of one per cent, or a thousandth part of the whole number, “read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest”; the remaining ninety-nine and nine-tenths per cent, through a habit of loose and indiscriminate reading, are unequal to the sustained concentration of mind demanded by the higher poetry, the language of which is characterized by a severe economy of expression--a closeness of texture, resulting from the elliptical energy of highly impassioned thought.
Quotes with DIGEST (3)
... we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.
Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a 'reality' that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue--only we've all been issued the wrong librettos. For a text, we're given the Bible. Or the Talmud or the Koran. We're given Time magazine, and Reader's Digest, daily papers, and the six o'clock news; we're given schoolbooks, sitcoms, and revisionist histories; we're given psychological counseling, cults, workshops, advertiseme…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 80 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).