What is "digest"

Digest \Di*gest"\, v. i.

1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.

2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.

Digest \Di"gest\, n. [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr. digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v. t.] That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles; esp. (Law), 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.

A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects.
--Sir W. Jones.

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
--Burke.

Digest \Di*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Digested; p. pr. & vb. n. Digesting.] [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear, carry, wear. See Jest.]

1. 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.

   Joining them together and digesting them into order.
   --Blair.

   We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested.
   --Shak.

2. (Physiol.) 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.

3. 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.

   Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
   --Sir H. Sidney.

   How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy?
   --Shak.

4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

   Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them.
   --Book of Common Prayer.

5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

   I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works.
   --Coleridge.

6. (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]

   Well-digested fruits.
   --Jer. Taylor.

9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

"collection of writing," late 14c., from Latin digesta, from neuter plural of digestus, literally "digested thing," noun use of past participle of digerere "to separate, divide, arrange," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + gerere "to carry" (see gest).

"assimilate food in bowels," late 14c., from Latin digestus (see digest (n.)). Related: Digested; digesting.

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application. 2 (context transitive English) 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. 3 (context transitive English) 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. 4 To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. 5 (context transitive chemistry English) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations. 6 (context intransitive English) To undergo digestion. 7 (context medicine obsolete intransitive English) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. 8 (context medicine obsolete transitive English) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound. 9 (context obsolete transitive English) To ripen; to mature. 10 (context obsolete transitive English) To quieten or abate, as anger or grief. Etymology 2

n. 1 That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles 2 A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws. 3 Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "'''digest'''" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings. 4 (context cryptography English) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

1. n. a periodical that summarizes the news

2. something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) [syn: compilation]

3. v. convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products"

4. arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information"

5. 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" [syn: endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]

6. become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours"

7. systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code"

8. soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture

9. make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: condense, concentrate]

10. soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture

Digest may refer to:

• The Digest, formerly the English and Empire Digest
• Digestion of food
• Digest size magazine format
• Digest access authentication
• Email digest
• Digital Geographic Exchange Standard
• Pandects or "The Digest", a digest of Roman law
• Digest, a MIME Multipart Subtype
• trade name of the drug Lansoprazole

The Digest, also known as the Pandects ( Latin: Digesta seu Pandectae, adapted from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης pandektes, "all-containing"), is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century (AD 530-533). It spans 50 volumes, and represented a reduction and codification of all Roman laws up to that time.

The Digest was part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law issued under Justinian I. The other two parts were Institutes of Justinian, and the Codex Justinianus. A fourth part, the Novels (or Novellae Constitutiones), was added later.