predigest
verb (used with object)
to treat (food) by an artificial process analogous to digestion so that, when taken into the body, it is more easily digestible.
predigestion
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a word derived from
predigest.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Francis Bacon
