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.-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.-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.-to appropriate for strengthening and comfort.-hence: to bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.-to soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.-to dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.-to ripen; to mature.-to quiet or abate, as anger or grief.-to undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.-to suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.-that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles-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.