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Digest

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Digest: see Corpus Juris Civilis Corpus Juris Civilis (kôr`pəs j
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(1) A compilation of all the traffic on a news group or mailing list. Digests can be daily or weekly.

(2) Any compilation or summary.

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.
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Do you know, gentlemen --very gravely and mathematically bowing to each Captain in succession -- Do you know, gentlemen, that the digestive organs of the whale are so inscrutably constructed by Divine Providence, that it is quite impossible for him to completely digest even a man's arm?
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
They devour one another, and cannot even digest themselves.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
This is, however, a kind of horse-medicine, which requires a very robust constitution to digest, and is therefore proper only for the vulgar, unless in one single instance, viz.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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