digest
verb (used with object)
to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
well-digested
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a word derived from
digest.
Example Sentences
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Touching his glass to theirs, and then gracefully unreeling his garden hose, he takes from his pocket the small funnel, and, gently sipping the generous wine through his tin pharynx, he begins his well-digested response.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
They have not been the subject of particular scientific study, and most of the remedies applied, are rather the result of casual or hap-hazard suggestion, than of well-digested inference, from long-continued and accurate observation.
A well-digested compost, formed of barnyard manure, loam and salt, makes the best fertilizer.
From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr
The letters contain an enormous amount of well-digested information, and display great critical acumen, amounting in some cases almost to prevision.
From Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century by Karl Marx
You do not mean to set at naught the well-digested idea of centuries?
From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories by Joseph Lewis French
