disgest

English

Etymology

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

disgest (third-person singular simple present disgests, present participle disgesting, simple past and past participle disgested)

1. Obsolete form of digest.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     disgest the harder part

References

• “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

Anagrams

• digests