redigest

English

Etymology

re- +‎ digest

Verb

redigest (third-person singular simple present redigests, present participle redigesting, simple past and past participle redigested)

1. (transitive) To digest again.
   • 1875, Alphonse René le Mire de Normandy, Henry Minchin Noad, The Commercial Hand-book of Chemical Analysis:

     ...to treat the metal with nitro-hydrochloric acid, evaporate to dryness, redigest with hydrochloric acid, and then precipitate the filtered solution...

   • 1938, John Green Sims, Whither, World?:

     ...but the professors had not digested their knowledge with practical execution in mind, with the result that my boy is having to redigest it.

   • 1998, John James William Rogers, Paul Geoffrey Feiss, People and the Earth:

     The ability of ruminants to rework their feed and continually redigest it enables them to gain more nourishment...

Anagrams

• Estridge, digester, estridge, gedrites