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Quote:Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.[Edmund Burke]

Quote:A brain has to digest its food, too.[Jason Mechalek]

Quote:While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [Samuel Johnson]



Definitions of: digest

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Definition: 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.

Definition: To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.

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

Definition: To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.

Definition: To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.

Definition: To ripen; to mature.

Definition: To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.

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

Definition: 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.

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