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digestion (iou)



digestion noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French from Latin digestio(n-), formed as DIGEST verb: see -ION.]
The process by which ingested food is broken down in the body into forms that may be readily assimilated. Also (Medicine), the enzymic breakdown of bodily tissue in various disease states. LME.
Shakespeare Richard II Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.
The power or faculty of digesting food; the ability to assimilate food without discomfort. LME.
Arnold Bennett The children feared goose for their father, whose digestion was usually unequal to this particular bird.
The process of maturing an ulcer or wound; disposition to healthy suppuration. LME-M19.
The process of digesting a substance by heat, solvent, etc. Formerly also, susceptibility to the action of heat; a product of (gentle) heating. LME.
The action of methodizing and reducing to order; the result of this, a digest. M16-L18.
Mental assimilation or absorption of concepts etc. E17.
T. Fuller He had a great appetite to learning, and a quick digestion.
The action of bearing without resistance; endurance. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
L. Sterne The silent digestion of one wrong provokes a second.