- to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- to promote the digestion of (food).
- to obtain information, ideas, or principles from; assimilate mentally: to digest a pamphlet on nuclear waste.
- to arrange methodically in the mind; think over: to digest a plan.
- to bear with patience; endure.
- to arrange in convenient or methodical order; reduce to a system; classify.
- to condense, abridge, or summarize.
- to soften or disintegrate (a substance) by means of moisture, heat, chemical action, or the like.
- to digest food.
- to undergo digestion, as food.
- a collection or compendium, usually of literary, historical, legal, or scientific matter, especially when classified or condensed.
- Law.
- a systematic abstract of some body of law.
- a collection in fifty books of excerpts, especially from the writings of the Classical Roman jurists, compiled by order of Justinian in the 6th century a.d.; the Pandects.
- the product of the action of an enzyme on food or other organic material.
- to subject (food) to a process of digestion
- to assimilate mentally
- to soften or disintegrate or be softened or disintegrated by the action of heat, moisture, or chemicals; decompose
- to arrange in a methodical or systematic order; classify
- to reduce to a summary
- to tolerate
- a comprehensive and systematic compilation of information or material, often condensed
- a magazine, periodical, etc, that summarizes news of current events
- a compilation of rules of law based on decided cases
- 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
