disgest
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Corruption of digest, influenced by dis- and chest in the mistaken belief that it refers to food moving from the chest to the intestine.
Verb
[edit]disgest (third-person singular simple present disgests, present participle disgesting, simple past and past participle disgested)
- Obsolete form of digest.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- disgest the harder part
References
[edit]- “disgest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- A glossary of provincial words used in Herefordshire and some of the adjoining counties, George Cornewall Lewis