Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Digestion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Digestion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Obsolete form of
digestion .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word disgestion.
Examples
-
Don't forget the bacterial component of disgestion, or of decomposing uneaten food!
Oh, Bugger 2009
-
"A couple o 'boxes o' matches, Mrs Littleproud; and you can gi 'me the odd ha'penny in clo' balls for the disgestion."
A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann
-
It is impossible for the work of disgestion to be carried on in the stomach at a temperature of less than one hundred degrees.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876
-
But at the reconings ende what pleasures are they? pleasures full of vice which hold him still in a restles feauer: pleasures subiect to repentance, like sweete meates of hard disgestion: pleasures bought with paine and perill, spent and past in a moment, and followed with a long and lothsome remorse of conscience.
A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591
-
Because rapid acting works too fast in relation to my disgestion, my endo switched me to Humulin R.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009
-
"It's only a sort of a kind o 'disgestion like as you can do or no, but them beggars has left their boats.
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.