DIGEST

Digest

The Digest, also known as the Pandects, is a name given to a compendium or digest of Roman law compiled by order of the emperor Justinian I in the 6th century . It spans 50 volumes, and represented a reduction and codification of all Roman laws up to that time.

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digest

Noun

  1. That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles
  2. A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws.
    Comyn's Digest
    the United States Digest
  3. Any collection of articles, as an Internet mailing list "digest" including a week's postings, or a magazine arranging a collection of writings.
    Reader's Digest is published monthly.
    a weekly Email digest is sent on an email list with all the messages exchanged during a week.

Verb

  1. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
    to digest laws
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
  5. To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
  6. To undergo digestion.
    Food digests well or badly.
  7. To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
  8. To cause to suppurate, or generate pus, as an ulcer or wound.
  9. To ripen; to mature.
  10. To quieten or abate, as anger or grief.


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