The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Digest \Di*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Digested; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Digesting.] [L. digestus, p. p. of digerere to separate,
   arrange, dissolve, digest; di- = dis- + gerere to bear,
   carry, wear. See Jest.]
   1. To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and
      classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or
      application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
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            Joining them together and digesting them into order.
                                                  --Blair.
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            We have cause to be glad that matters are so well
            digested.                             --Shak.
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   2. (Physiol.) 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.
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   3. 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.
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            Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer.
                                                  --Sir H.
                                                  Sidney.
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            How shall this bosom multiplied digest
            The senate's courtesy?                --Shak.
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   4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
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            Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the
            Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest
            them.                                 --Book of
                                                  Common Prayer.
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   5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled
      to; to brook.
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            I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's
            works.                                --Coleridge.
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   6. (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a
      gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for
      chemical operations.
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   7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus,
      as an ulcer or wound.
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   8. To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]
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            Well-digested fruits.                 --Jer. Taylor.
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   9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Digest \Di*gest"\, v. i.
   1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
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   2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Digest \Di"gest\, n. [L. digestum, pl. digesta, neut., fr.
   digestus, p. p.: cf. F. digeste. See Digest, v. t.]
   That which is digested; especially, that which is worked
   over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles;
   esp. (Law), A compilation of statutes or decisions
   analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense
   to the Pandects of Justinian (see Pandect), but is also
   specially given by authors to compilations of laws on
   particular topics; a summary of laws; as, Comyn's Digest; the
   United States Digest.
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         A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after
         the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. --Sir W.
                                                  Jones.
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         They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy,
         called the Rights of Man.                --Burke.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

digest
    n 1: a periodical that summarizes the news
    2: something that is compiled (as into a single book or file)
       [syn: compilation, digest]
    v 1: convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest
         milk products"
    2: arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this
       information"
    3: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear
       his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a
       lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the
       heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
       [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear,
       stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer,
       put up]
    4: become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few
       hours"
    5: systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the
       government digested the entire law into a code"
    6: soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or
       moisture
    7: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a
       summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate]
    8: soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or
       moisture

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

digest

   A periodical collection of messages which have been posted to
   a newsgroup or mailing list.  A digest is prepared by a
   moderator who selects articles from the group or list,
   formats them and adds a contents list.  The digest is then
   either mailed to an alternative mailing list or posted to an
   alternative newsgroup.

   Some news readers and electronic mail programs provide
   commands to "undigestify" a digest, i.e. to split it up into
   individual articles which may then be read and saved or
   discarded separately.