Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Premature or overhasty digestion.
- noun Previous digestion; artificial digestion, as of food by peptonization; digestion before eating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Digestion too soon performed; hasty digestion.
- noun (Med.) Artificial digestion of food for use in illness or impaired digestion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The partial
hydrolysis etc. offood , byenzymes or other materials, prior to normaldigestion
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities, and secret seeds of diseases.
The Essays 2007
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It is like that which the physicians call predigestion, or hasty digestion; which is sure to fill the body full of crudities and secret seeds of diseases.
XXV. Of Dispatch 1909
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Corn silage has a positive effect due to the natural composition of corn, as well as its low buffer capacity, and the partial 'predigestion' during ensilage.
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It's the first sign of rampant Americanization: the underlining of every theme and emotion, the explanation of every plot point, the thorough predigestion before the gruel is spooned into our mouths.
NYT > Home Page By MIKE HALE 2011
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As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains.
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As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains.
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As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains.
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As in the case of the anthropoid ape, the human digestive system is twelve times the length of the body; our skin has millions of tiny pores to evaporate water and cool the body by sweating; we drink water by suction like all other vegetarian animals; our tooth and jaw structure is vegetarian; and our saliva is alkaline and contains ptyalin for predigestion of grains.
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Fermentation makes many foods more nutritious and digestible (fermentation is a form of predigestion)
REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio 2009
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