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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Digestive \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Digestive \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.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
digestive
adj : relating to or having the power to cause or promote
digestion; "digestive juices"; "a digestive enzyme";
"digestive ferment"
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