disgest

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English

Etymology

Corruption of digest, influenced by dis- and chest in the mistaken belief that it refers to food moving from the chest to the intestine.

Verb

disgest (third-person singular simple present disgests, present participle disgesting, simple past and past participle disgested)

  1. Obsolete form of digest.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      disgest the harder part

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