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misdigest en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + digest.

Meanings

1. To digest incorrectly. ▸ To improperly break down (food) in the alimentary canal.
   • The eyesight changes to seeing things that are not there or in different form than what is real, or the stomach corrupts food and misdigests it. 2013, Mones Abu-Asab, Hakima Amri, Marc S. Micozzi, Avicenna’s Medicine:
   • Adding a heavy toxic burden from misdigested foods to the normal toxic load a body already has to handle creates a myriad of unpleasant symptoms, and greatly shortens life. 2006, Fire Your Doctor!, page 32:
   • I misdigest my food, such as I get. 1996, Paul West, Sporting with Amaryllis, page 78:
   • Typically many cell types throughout the body accumulate the misdigested lysosomal material, but the degree of accumulation is not always the determining factor in whether a particular organ or system is seriously impaired. 2013, Joy A. Cavagnaro, Preclinical Safety Evaluation of Biopharmaceuticals:
2. To digest incorrectly. ▸ To incorrectly analyze or summarize.
   • Let us examine closer some of the main elements of Stoic thought which, misdigested and eclectically revised by Cicero, exerted such immense influence on later political and legal thought. 2000, Costas Douzinas, The End of Human Rights, page 50:
   • And within two years of Ashford, a commentator had found three Washington cases, “misdigested and lost on the books," which neither the majority nor the separate opinions had considered, recognizing the doctrine of equitable conversion as the law of Washington. 1977, University of Puget Sound law review - Volume 1, page 122:
   • Its subsequent dysfunctionality lies not so much in any intrinsic weakness but in its proponents' preference for articulating misdigested socialist rhetoric at the expense of a thorough understanding of the practicalities and the operational modalities of the societal form they were proposing. 2004, Social Text - Volume 22, page 40:

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