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Definition of Predigest
1. Verb. Digest (food) beforehand.
Definition of Predigest
1. v. t. To subject (food) to predigestion or artificial digestion.
Definition of Predigest
1. Verb. To digest food in advance of eating it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predigest
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predigest
Literary usage of Predigest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1888)
"In case of extreme illness, the best pbn, without dot.bt (f* r it is the safest),
is to predigest the milk; the process of predi^-estion being now readily ..."
2. International Contributions to Medical Literature: "festschrift" in Honor of by Francis Huber, Frederic E. Sondern, Abraham Jacobi (1900)
"... I have found that where the proteid digestion is weak, and in those cases
where we ordinarily would have supposed that it would be well to predigest the ..."
3. Summer complaint and infant feeding by Walter Shield Christopher (1892)
"How about predigest- ing the starch? We do not need to predigest the starch; the
great bulk of children can digest starch, particularly the small amount ..."
4. New England Medical Monthly (1889)
"If trouble arises during our care of an infant and indigestion ensue, I most
decidedly commend partially predigest- ed milk using the Fairchild ..."
5. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1900)
"For infants below normal, it is sometimes necessary to predigest the mixtures
containing higher percentages of ..."
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