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The Literary Digest is as much predigestion of the affairs of the world as I care for, and what they miss I shall try to grub out of the daily papers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Papain, p�′pa-in, n. a nitrogenous body, isolated from the juice of the papaw, one of the digestive ferments applied in some cases of dyspepsia, either internally or for the predigestion of food.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis