• enPR dī-jĕstʹ, IPA: /daɪˈdʒɛst/, /dəˈdʒɛst/

digest (digests, present participle digesting; past and past participle digested)

1. (transitive) To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.

   to digest laws

   • joining them together and digesting them into order

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:

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

2. (transitive) 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. (transitive) 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.

   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     How shall this bosom multiplied digest / The senate's courtesy?

   • , Book of Common Prayer

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

4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.

   • I never can digest the loss of most of Origen's works.

5. (transitive, chemistry) To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
6. (intransitive) To undergo digestion.

   I just ate an omelette and I'm waiting for it to digest.

7. (medicine, obsolete, intransitive) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
8. (medicine, obsolete, transitive) To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To ripen; to mature.

   • well-digested fruits

10. (obsolete, transitive) To quieten or reduce (a negative feeling, such as anger or grief)

• (distribute or arrange methodically) arrange, sort, sort out
• (separate food in the alimentary canal)
• (think over and arrange methodically in the mind) sort out
• (chemistry)
• (undergo digestion)

• German: ordnen
• Spanish: digerir

• French: digérer
• German: verdauen
• Italian: digerire
• Portuguese: digerir
• Russian: перева́ривать
• Spanish: digerir

• German: überdenken, verdauen (colloquial)
• Russian: перева́ривать

• German: aufschließen

• German: verdaulich sein

• enPR dīʹjĕst, IPA: /ˈdaɪdʒɛst/, /ˈdaɪdʒəst/

digest (plural digests)

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.

   Comyn's Digest

   the United States Digest

3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.

   Reader's Digest is published monthly.

   The weekly email digest contains all the messages exchanged during the past week.

4. (cryptography) The result of applying a hash function to a message.

• German: Verdaute

• French: digeste
• Portuguese: compêndio
• Russian: сбо́рник
• Spanish: resumen

• French: revue de presse, revue
• German: Digest
• Russian: да́йджест

• Portuguese: resumo