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Definitions for: Digestive [adj] relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme"; "digestive ferment"
Webster (1913) Definition: Di*gest"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.
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.]
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