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n. [ F. almageste, LL. almageste, Ar. al-majistī, fr. Gr. &unr_; (sc. &unr_;), the greatest composition. ] The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Auto- + suggestion. ] (Med.) 1. Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, especially in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. hypnosis induced by oneself.
Syn. -- self-hypnosis, self-suggestion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., superl. of Big. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., prop., song of history. ] Any Old French epic poem having for its subject events or exploits of early French history, real or legendary, and written originally in assonant verse of ten or twelve syllables. The most famous one is the Chanson de Roland.

Langtoft had written in the ordinary measure of the later chansons de geste. Saintsbury. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. circumgestare to carry around; circum + gestare to carry. ] The act or process of carrying about. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. congestus, p. p. of congere to bring together; con- + gerere. See Gerund. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

To what will thy congested guilt amount? Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To cause an overfullness of the blood vessels (esp. the capillaries) of an organ or part. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Bot.) Crowded together. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Containing an unnatural accumulation of blood; hyperæmic; -- said of any part of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. congestio: cf. F. congestion. ] 1. The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The congestion of dead bodies one upon another. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperæmia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Pertaining to, indicating, or attended with, congestion in some part of the body; as, a congestive fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Joining them together and digesting them into order. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. Sir H. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall this bosom multiplied digest
The senate's courtesy? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To appropriate for strengthening and comfort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grant that we may in such wise hear them [ the Scriptures ], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook. [ 1913 Webster ]

I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To ripen; to mature. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Well-digested fruits. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To quiet or abate, as anger or grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. Sir W. Jones. [ 1913 Webster ]

They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a digested or well-arranged manner; methodically. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who digests. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other substances may be subjected, usually in water or other liquid, to a temperature above that of boiling, in order to soften them. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being digestible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. digestible, L. digestibilis. ] Capable of being digested. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being digestible; digestibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. digestion, L. digestio. ] 1. The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Generation of pus; suppuration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. digestif, L. digestivus. ] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digestive apparatus, the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. --
Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

That digestive [ a cigar ] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Digester. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Digestion. [ Obs. ] Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To digest. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Digestion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. egestus, p. p. of egerere to carry out, to discharge; e out + gerere to carry. ] (Physiol.) To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., neut. pl. from p. p. of L. egere. See Egest. ] (Physiol.) That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. egestio. ] Act or process of egesting; a voiding. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A guest. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. geste exploit. See Jest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [ Obs. ] Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Gesture; bearing; deportment. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Through his heroic grace and honorable gest. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Gist a resting place. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [ Obs. ] Kersey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office. [ Obs. ] Hanmer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gestans, p. pr. of gestare. ] Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [ R. ] “Clouds gestant with heat.” Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gestatio a bearing, carrying, fr. gestare to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. gestation. See Gest deed, Jest. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. gestatorius that serves for carrying: cf. F. gestatoire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to gestation or pregnancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being carried or worn. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To tell stories or gests. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Gest a deed, Gesture. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Carried away by the enthusiasm of the gestic art. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gesticulated p. pr. & vb. n. Gesticulating. ] [ L. gesticulatus, p. p. of gesticulari to gesticulate, fr. gesticulus a mimic gesture, gesticulation, dim. of gestus gesture, fr. gerere, gestum, to bear, carry, peform. See Gestic. ] To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To represent by gesture; to act. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gesticulatio: cf. F. gesticulation. ] 1. The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gesture; a motion of the body or limbs in speaking, or in representing action or passion, and enforcing arguments and sentiments. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Antic tricks or motions. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who gesticulates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Gest a deed. ] A reciter of gests or legendary tales; a story-teller. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Minstrels and gestours for to tell tales. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to gesture. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make gestures; to gesticulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The players . . . gestured not undecently withal. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. gestura mode of action, fr. L. gerere, gestum, to bear, behave, perform, act. See Gest a deed. ] 1. Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Accubation, or lying down at meals, was a gesture used by many nations. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A motion of the body or limbs expressive of sentiment or passion; any action or posture intended to express an idea or a passion, or to enforce or emphasize an argument, assertion, or opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Humble and reverent gestures. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gestured p. pr. & vb. n. Gesturing. ] To accompany or illustrate with gesture or action; to gesticulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not orderly read, nor gestured as beseemeth. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from gestures. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of making gestures; gesturing. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]