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<h1>Digenea</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Di*ge"ne*a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl</plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ = <?/ twice + <?/ race, offspring.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.</def>

<h1>Digenesis</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Di*gen"e*sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>di-</ets> + <ets>genesis</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See <er>Parthenogenesis</er>.</def>

<h1>Digenous</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dig"e*nous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>di-</ets> + <ets>-genous</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Sexually reproductive.</def>

<cs><col>Digenous reproduction</col>. <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <cd>Same as <er>Digenesis</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Digerent</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Dig"er*ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, . <ety>[L. <ets>digerens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>digerere</ets>. See <er>Digest</er>.]</ety> <def>Digesting.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Digest</h1> <Xpage=411>

<hw>Di*gest"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Digested</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Digesting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>digestus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>digerere</ets> to separate, arrange, dissolve, digest; <ets>di- = dis-</ets> + <ets>gerere</ets> to bear, carry, wear. See <er>Jest</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; <as>as, to <ex>digest</ex> the laws, etc.</as></def>

<blockquote>Joining them together and <b>digesting</b> them into order. <i>Blair.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>We have cause to be glad that matters are so well <b>digested</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.</def>

<blockquote>Feelingly <b>digest</b> the words you speak in prayer. <i>Sir H. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>How shall this bosom multiplied <b>digest</b> The senate's courtesy? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.</def>

<blockquote>Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly <b>digest</b> them. <i>Book of Common Prayer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.</def>

<blockquote>I never can <b>digest</b> the loss of most of Origin's works. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>To ripen; to mature.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Well-<b>digested</b> fruits. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.</def>