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redigest en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English digest English redigest From re- + digest.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To digest again.
   • ...to treat the metal with nitro-hydrochloric acid, evaporate to dryness, redigest with hydrochloric acid, and then precipitate the filtered solution... 1875, Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, Henry Minchin Noad, The Commercial Hand-book of Chemical Analysis:
   • The ability of ruminants to rework their feed and continually redigest it enables them to gain more nourishment... 1998, John James William Rogers, Paul Geoffrey Feiss, People and the Earth:
   • ...but the professors had not digested their knowledge with practical execution in mind, with the result that my boy is having to redigest it. 1938, John Green Sims, Whither, World?:

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