digest
To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application.
Example
“to digest laws”
Other meanings
To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.
To think over and arrange methodically in the mind; to reduce to a plan or method; to receive in the mind and consider carefully; to get an understanding of; to comprehend.
Word history
From Latin "dīgestus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “digest” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.