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digesting 音標拼音: [dɑɪdʒ'ɛstɪŋ] [d'ɑɪdʒ ,ɛstɪŋ] ing. 消化 消化 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. [ 1913 Webster] Joining them together and digesting them into order. -- Blair. [ 1913 Webster] We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. -- Sir H. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster] How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate' s courtesy? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [ 1913 Webster] Grant that we may in such wise hear them [ the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. -- Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [ 1913 Webster] I never can digest the loss of most of Origin' s works. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 7. ( Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To ripen; to mature. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Well- digested fruits. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [ 1913 Webster]
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