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▪ I. diˈgesting, vbl. n.
[f. digest v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb digest in various senses.
1540Elyot Image Gov. (1556) 72 b, The concoctynge and digistyng of that, which the bodie receiveth. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. v. §5 Scaliger..hath taken so much pains in digesting of them. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 359, I tried to redissolve this substance..by long boiling and digesting. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Poor Relation, After the digesting of this affront.
b. attrib.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxii. (1887) 116 Exercise..maketh the naturall heat strong against digesting time.
▪ II. diˈgesting, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That digests.
1605Timme Quersit. i. vii. 32 The flower of salt..is of a sharpe qualitie and much digesting. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 371 Give a digesting fire for three days. 1809Gregor in Phil. Trans. XCIX. 198 The process of solution is..accelerated by a digesting heat.
Hence diˈgestingly adv.
1885G. Meredith Diana III. ii. 48 They rose from table at ten..digestingly refreshed. |