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adjective

Digestive adj. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. "Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be."

Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.

Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.

noun

Digestive n.

That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. "That digestive (a cigar) had become to me as necessary as the meal itself."

(Med.)

(a)

A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.

(b)

A tonic. (R.)

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"Digestive" Quotes from Famous Books

... the last 'Kettledrum.' How fervently she should pray for continued peace with China, and low tariff on Pekoe? I scarcely know which is the greater hardship, to abstain from food when very hungry, or to impose upon one's digestive apparatus when it piteously protests, asking for ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... declared that they could not sleep in the same house with such a disreputable person. The thrifty landlady, whose principle of success was the concentration of all her faculties on the task of satisfying the digestive organs of her patrons, found herself for once at fault, and she was quite surprised to learn what a high-toned class of ...

— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe

... and I got our digestive tracts emptied and went in to town, where I could use a phone that didn't go through a military switch-board, and I put through a call to Allan Hartley, President Hartley's son. He owes us a break, after the work we did in Puerto ...

— The Mercenaries • Henry Beam Piper

... died, two from heat apoplexy, two from debility, and one from cholera. (None came under my care.) The Pasha himself was several times on the point of death, from debility and complete loss of tone of the digestive organs. He was at last prevailed upon to leave, and saved his life by a timely trip ...

— A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia - With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, - His Country and People • Henry Blanc

... of Mme. T——. Acute neurasthenia; she stays in bed a fortnight every month, as it is totally impossible for her to move or work; she suffers from lack of appetite, depression, and digestive disorders. She is cured by one visit, and the cure seems to be permanent as ...

— Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion • Emile Coue

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