† digesturen.
Obsolete.
The process or faculty of digesting.
1. = digestion n. 1, 2.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [noun] > digestion > faculty or power of
digestion1398
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1565 J. Hall Hist. Expost. in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. sig. Bbbiijv A sanguine man, is he that hathe a good disgesture.
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxi. lviii. 254 To make him drinke beyond all good disgesture.
1614 S. Latham Falconry i. xi. 41 At that time of the yeere, old food is more drie and hard of digesture.
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxxiv. 219 Feed only upon meats of easie digesture.
1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 128 Having contracted a Disease through catching Cold and want of Digesture.
2. The putting up with or brooking of anything unpleasant; = digestion n. 4.
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the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance
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1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xxiii. f. 178v The Lords..will thincke it straunge, and receiue the same with ill digesture.
1606 J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (1880) 92 He already can The calmie lines with faire digesture brooke.
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