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adjective

Digestive adj. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. "Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be."

Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.

Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

noun

Digestive n.

That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. "That digestive (a cigar) had become to me as necessary as the meal itself."

(Med.)

(a)

A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.

(b)

A tonic. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Digestive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Digestive" Quotes from Famous Books

... countrymen,—a look hardly to be found except where figs and oranges ripen in the open air. A kindly climate to grow up in, a religion which takes your money and gives you a stamped ticket good at Saint Peter's box office, a roomy chest and a good pair of lungs in it, an honest digestive apparatus, a lively temperament, a cheerful acceptance of the place in life assigned to one by nature and circumstance,—these are conditions under which life may be quite comfortable to endure, and certainly is very pleasant to contemplate. All these conditions were united in ...

— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... being finished at the Gymnase, the plays of which she adored. At this moment the guests were in that happy state of laziness and silence which follows a delicious dinner, especially if we have presumed too far on our digestive powers. Leaning back in their chairs, their wrists lightly resting on the edge of the table, they were indolently playing with the gilded blades of their dessert-knives. When a dinner comes to this declining moment some guests ...

— The Red Inn • Honore de Balzac

... cells," continued Wilson, imperturbably, "every animal body is a compound or aggregation; the aggregation involving a progressive modification in the structure of each cell, the differentiation of groups of cells to perform special functions,—digestive, respiratory, and the rest,—and the subordination of each cell or group of cells to the ...

— The Meaning of Good--A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson

... years into an air- hunger, and finally all physical, and much of mental, effort developed a sense of suffocation which demanded short periods of absolute rest. Associations were then formed between certain foods and disturbing digestive sensations. Tea alone seemed to help, and she became dependent upon increasingly numerous cups of this beverage. Knowing her history as we do, we can easily see how she had become abnormally acute in her responses to the discomforts which are always ...

— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... phases of physical science and industrial art will do well to combine three processes: study of the words of others; personal experimentation; and digestive thought. The last mentioned is the process of profoundest value. On it finally depends mastery. It is not of so much importance how soon the concept shall finally be gained as that it is gained. A statement by another may seem lifeless and inert and the meaning of an observation ...

— Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 - A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. • Kempster Miller

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