digestive : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: digestive	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
digestive adj relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment" n any substance that promotes digestion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Digestive \Digest"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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Digestive \Digest"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.]