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Definition of Digesting
1. digest [v] - See also: digest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digesting
Literary usage of Digesting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"SeH'O, is produced by digesting finely-divided calcic carbonate, for several
days, in a cold solution of alum in ..."
2. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"The legislature shall, in the year 1909 and each ten years thereafter, make
provision by law for revising, digesting, and promulgating the statutes of the ..."
3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"An oil made by digesting, for some time,—in a mixture of white wine and olive
oil,—old turpentine, litharge, aloes, saffron, ..."
4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"from a valuable paper on this subject by Dr. AJC Saunier, Western Med. Reporter for
Oct., 1888. Three substances have been used for digesting the false ..."
5. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"These are not in the power of a solitary author, whose heart is broken by the
pains of digesting and transcribing, to say nothing of the charge of ..."
6. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1853)
"engaged in Ogilvy's Book of Roads, superintending the whole, digesting the notes,
directing the engravings, three or four of which he executed with his own ..."
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