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Definition of Digestively
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digestively
Literary usage of Digestively
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1908)
"The public school, if it is democratic, should endeavor to give them the meat
upon which they can digestively feed. Arithmetic, reading, grammar—this is not ..."
2. How to Read by John Barrett Kerfoot (1916)
"... one slowly and digestively assimilates into one's attitude toward the world.
And the same thing is true of fiction. One may read a story and get little ..."
3. Character and Temperament by Joseph Jastrow (1921)
"... sicken not only at repulsive and at appalling sights, but are digestively
upset by emotional strain. That conversely indigestion induces depression is ..."
4. The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part by John Keats, Thomas Bird Mosher (1898)
"... digestively while delivering his discourse 'de sanctis sanctorum,' was tempted
by the Devil in imagine ..."
5. Yale Lectures on Preaching: And Other Writings by Nathaniel Judson Burton (1888)
"... and a young man need not despise himself if he does not feel absolutely
inexhaustible right off)—he also has read a good deal, has read digestively, ..."
6. Diseases of infants and children by Henry Dwight Chapin, Godfrey Roger Pisek (1911)
"The formulas given on page 168 may be followed closely, and if the infants are
not acutely ill, digestively, beginning with a weak mixture and going from ..."
7. Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics by Herbert Swift Carter, Paul Edward Howe, Howard Harris Mason (1921)
"... the nice part that it does in typhoid it is equally necessary to keep these
patients nourished to the limit of their capacity, digestively speaking. ..."
8. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1876)
"Sir Henry pondered digestively. Before the ruminative process was concluded they
reached the house aforesaid, and the next words were spoken by the shabby ..."
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