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† 1. Of good digestion; fig. able to assimilate one’s learning. Obs.
1601. B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. iii. If they should confidently praise their workes, In them it would appeare inflation: Which in a full, and wel-digested man Cannot receiue that foule abusiue name.
† 2. Fully matured or ripened. Obs.
1657. Jer. Taylor, Disc. Friendship, 12. Some have splendid fires, aromatic spices, rich wines, and well digested fruits.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 111. The strong tone of its vessels and its precipitant circulation drive on the juices before well digested, and are apt to throw crudities into the fruit.
3. Carefully and methodically arranged.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. III. xi. 540. The College … has … a well digested Library.
1731. Hist. Lit., III. 255. At the end of each Volume [is] a copious well-digested Index.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, I. iii. § 2. 354. Regular and well-digested Accounts of the Phaenomena of the Natural World.
4. Carefully pondered or thought out.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 284. Each man, whatever his peculiar notions be, if he has any serious well-digested ones, may find something in them, which [etc.].
1826. Art Brewing (ed. 2), Pref. The well-digested plan which the large brewers have acted upon.
1867. A. Barry, Sir C. Barry, viii. 281. A scheme … which will probably be thought to show well-digested principle.
