Definition of Digesteve
Di*gest"ive (?), a. [F.
digestif, L. digestivus.] Pertaining to digestion;
having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the
digestive ferments.
Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will
be. B. Jonson.
Digestive apparatus, the organs of food
digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with
it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of
potassium.
Di*gest"ive, n. 1.
That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
Chaucer.
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as
necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.
2. (Med.) (a) A
substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes
suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A
tonic. [R.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- of, relating to, or functioning in digestion
- having the power to cause or promote digestion
- a substance that aids digestion
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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