Di*gest"ive , n.
1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
Chaucer.
That digestive [a cigar] had become to me
as necessary as the meal itself.
Blackw. Mag.
2. (Med.) (a)
A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [R.]
Di*gest"ive (?), a. [F. digestif, L.
digestivus.]
Pertaining to digestion; having the power to
cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.
B. Jonson.
Digestive apparatus, the organs
of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it. -- Digestive salt, the chloride of potassium.
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