DIGESTIVES

Noun

digestives

plural of digestive

Source: Wiktionary


DIGESTIVE

Di*gest"ive, a. Etym: [F. digestif, L. digestivus.]

Definition: 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.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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