digest

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

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.

In the morning giue them [horses] barley or prouender, a little at a time in diſtinct or ſeueral portions, tvvice or thrice one after another, ſo as he may chevv and eke diſgeſt it thoroughly, othervviſe if he rauen it, as he vvil do hauing much at a time, he rendreth it in his dung vvhole and not diſgeſted.

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.

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

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

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

To expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles.

By also relating the tales included in the anthology to various facts of that development, he leaves no doubt that this volume constitutes a veritable digest of the remarkable strides made by the genre in recent years.

A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.

Comyn's Digest

the United States Digest

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.

The result of applying a hash function to a message.