Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 50
Difficultate (v. t.) To render difficult; to difficilitate. [Obs.] -- Cotgrave.
Difficultly (adv.) With difficulty. -- Cowper.
Difficultness (n.) Difficulty. [R.] -- Golding.
Difficultness (n.) The quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" [syn: difficulty, difficultness] [ant: ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity].
Difficulties (n. pl. ) of Difficulty.
Difficulty (n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty.
Not being able to promote them [the interests of life] on account of the difficulty of the region. -- James Byrne.
Difficulty (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology.
They lie under some difficulties by reason of the emperor's displeasure. -- Addison.
Difficulty (n.) A controversy; a falling out; a disagreement; an objection; a cavil.
Measures for terminating all local difficulties. -- Bancroft.
Difficulty (n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties.
In days of difficulty and pressure. --Tennyson.
Syn: Impediment; obstacle; obstruction; embarrassment; perplexity; exigency; distress; trouble; trial; objection; cavil. See Impediment.
Difficulty (n.) An effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty" [syn: trouble, difficulty].
Difficulty (n.) A factor causing trouble in achieving a positive result or tending to produce a negative result; "serious difficulties were encountered in obtaining a pure reagent".
Difficulty (n.) A condition or state of affairs almost beyond one's ability to deal with and requiring great effort to bear or overcome; "grappling with financial difficulties".
Difficulty (n.) The quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" [syn: difficulty, difficultness] [ant: ease, easiness, simpleness, simplicity].
Diffide (v. i.) To be distrustful. [Obs.] -- Dr. H. More.
Diffidence (n.) The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. [Archaic]
That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. -- Donne.
Diffidence (n.) Distrust of one's self or one's own powers; lack of self-reliance; modesty; modest reserve; bashfulness.
It is good to speak on such questions with diffidence. -- Macaulay.
An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of address. -- W. Irving.
Syn: Humility; bashfulness; distrust; suspicion; doubt; fear; timidity; apprehension; hesitation. See Humility, and Bashfulness.
Diffidence (n.) Lack of self-confidence [syn: diffidence, self-doubt, self-distrust] [ant: confidence].
Diffidency (n.) See Diffidence. [Obs.]
Diffident (a.) Wanting confidence in others; distrustful. [Archaic]
You were always extremely diffident of their success. -- Melmoth.
Diffident (a.) Wanting confidence in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve.
The diffident maidens, Folding their hands in prayer. -- Longfellow.
Syn: Distrustful; suspicious; hesitating; doubtful; modest; bashful; lowly; reserved.
Diffident (a.) Showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture".
Diffident (a.) Lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man" [syn: diffident, shy, timid, unsure] [ant: confident].
Diffidently (adv.) In a diffident manner.
To stand diffidently against each other with their thoughts in battle array. -- Hobbes.
Diffidently (adv.) In a diffident manner; "`Oh, well,' he shrugged diffidently, `I like the work.'".
Diffind (v. t.) To split.
Diffine (v. t.) To define.
Diffinitive (a.) Definitive; determinate; final.
Diffission (n.) Act of cleaving or splitting.
Difflation (n.) A blowing apart or away.
Diffluence (n.) Alt. of Diffluency.
Diffluency (n.) A flowing off on all sides; fluidity.
Diffluent (a.) Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed.
Difform (a.) Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves.
Difformity (n.) Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity.
Diffracted (imp. & p. p.) of Diffract.
Diffracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diffract.
Diffract (v. t.) 使分解；使（光等）衍射 To break or separate into parts; to deflect, or decompose by deflection, arrays of light.
Diffract (v.) Undergo diffraction; "laser light diffracts electrons".
Diffraction (n.) 【物】（光線、電波等的）衍射 The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars.
Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. -- Whewell.
Diffraction grating. (Optics) See under Grating.
Diffraction spectrum. (Optics) See under Spectrum.
Diffraction (n.) When light passes sharp edges or goes through narrow slits the rays are deflected and produce fringes of light and dark bands.
Diffractive (a.) 繞射的 That produces diffraction.
Diffranchise () Alt. of Diffranchisement
Diffranchisement () See Disfranchise, Disfranchisement.
Diffusate (n.) Material which, in the process of catalysis, has diffused or passed through the separating membrane.
Diffused (imp. & p. p.) of Diffuse.
Diffusing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Diffuse.
Diffuse (v. t.) 使（熱、氣味等）四散，擴散（氣體等）；使滲出；傳播；散布；普及；【物】使（光線）漫射；使擴散 To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information.
Diffuse (v. i.) 四散，擴散；滲出；傳播；散布；【物】漫射；擴散 To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
Diffuse (a.) 四散的；擴散的；瀰散的 Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
Diffuse (v.) [ I or T ] （使）擴散，（使）傳播，（使）散佈 To (cause something to) spread in many directions.
// Television is a powerful means of diffusing knowledge.
Diffuse (v.) [ I or T ] （使氣體或液體）彌漫，擴散，滲透 To (cause a gas or liquid to) spread through or into a surrounding substance by mixing with it.
// Oxygen diffuses from the lungs into the bloodstream.
// The drop of red dye diffused slowly in the water.
Diffuse (a.) (Spread) 擴散的，彌漫的，分散的 Spread out and not directed in one place.
// A diffuse light.
// The company has become large and diffuse.
Diffuse (a.) (Not clear) 含混的，費解的，晦澀的 (disapproving) Not clear or easy to understand.
// A diffuse literary style.
Diffused (a.) Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse.
Diffusely (adv.) In a diffuse manner.
Diffuseness (n.) The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
Diffuser (n.) One who, or that which, diffuses.
Diffusibility (n.) The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.
Diffusible (a.) Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
Diffusible (a.) Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.
Diffusibleness (n.) Diffusibility.
Diffusion (n.) The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.
Diffusion (n.) The act of passing by osmosis through animal membranes, as in the distribution of poisons, gases, etc., through the body. Unlike absorption, diffusion may go on after death, that is, after the blood ceases to circulate.
Diffusive (a.) 散佈性的，普及的，擴及的 Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
Diffusively (adv.) In a diffusive manner.
Diffusiveness (n.) 擴散 The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Diffusivity (n.) Tendency to become diffused; tendency, as of heat, to become equalized by spreading through a conducting medium.
Dug (imp. & p. p.) of Dig.
Digged () of Dig.
Digging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dig.
Dig (v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
Be first to dig the ground. -- Dryden.
Dig (v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
Dig (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
Dig (v. t.) To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]
You should have seen children . . . dig and push their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them: Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear pearls. -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Dig (v. t.) To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam. [Colloq.]
To dig down, To undermine and cause to fall by digging; as, to dig down a wall.
To dig from, To dig out of, To dig out, To dig up, To get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.
To dig in, (a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
To dig in, (b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare or negotiating situations.
To dig in one's heels, To offer stubborn resistance.
Dig (v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
Dig for it more than for hid treasures. -- Job iii. 21.
I can not dig; to beg I am ashamed. -- Luke xvi. 3.
Dig (v. i.) (Mining) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
Dig (v. i.) To work hard or drudge; specif. (U. S.): To study ploddingly and laboriously. [Colloq.]
Peter dug at his books all the harder. -- Paul L. Ford.
Dig (v. i.) (Mach.) Of a tool: To cut deeply into the work because ill set, held at a wrong angle, or the like, as when a lathe tool is set too low and so sprung into the work.
To dig out, To depart; to leave, esp. hastily; decamp.
Dig (v. t.) To understand; as, do you dig me?. [slang]
Dig (v. t.) To notice; to look at; as, dig that crazy hat!. [slang]
Dig (v. t.) To appreciate and enjoy; as, he digs classical music as well as rock. [slang]
Dig (n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4. [Colloq.]
Dig (n.) A plodding and laborious student. [Cant, U.S.]
Dig (n.) A tool for digging. [Dial. Eng.]
Dig (n.) An act of digging.
Dig (n.) An amount to be dug.
Dig (n.) (Mining) same as Gouge.
Dig (n.) A critical and sometimes sarcastic or insulting remark, but often good-humored; as, celebrities at a roast must suffer through countless digs.
Dig (n.) An archeological excavation site.
Dig (n.) The site of an archeological exploration; "they set up camp next to the dig" [syn: dig, excavation, archeological site].
Dig (n.) An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe].
Dig (n.) A small gouge (as in the cover of a book); "the book was in good condition except for a dig in the back cover".
Dig (n.) The act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging, dig].
Dig (n.) The act of touching someone suddenly with your finger or elbow; "she gave me a sharp dig in the ribs" [syn: dig, jab].
Dig (v.) Turn up, loosen, or remove earth; "Dig we must"; "turn over the soil for aeration" [syn: dig, delve, cut into, turn over].
Dig (v.) Create by digging; "dig a hole"; "dig out a channel" [syn: dig, dig out].
Dig (v.) Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil].
Dig (v.) Remove, harvest, or recover by digging; "dig salt"; "dig coal" [syn: dig, dig up, dig out].
Dig (v.) Thrust down or into; "dig the oars into the water"; "dig your foot into the floor".
Dig (v.) Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" [syn: excavate, dig, hollow].
Dig (v.) Poke or thrust abruptly; "he jabbed his finger into her ribs" [syn: jab, prod, stab, poke, dig].
Dig (v.) Get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" [syn: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend].
Digamist (n.) One who marries a second time; a deuterogamist. -- Hammond.
Digamma (n.) (Gr. Gram.) A letter (?, ?) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse.
Note: This form identifies it with the Latin F, though in sound it is said to have been nearer V. It was pronounced, probably, much like the English W. Digammate
Digammate (a.) Alt. of Digammated.
Digammate, Digammated (a.) Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek 'i`s. -- Andrews.
Digamous (a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.
Digamy (n.) Act, or state, of being twice married; deuterogamy.
Digastric (a.) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.
Digastric (a.) Pertaining to the digastric muscle of the lower jaw; as, the digastric nerves.
Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.
Digenesis (n.) The faculty of multiplying in two ways; -- by ova fecundated by spermatic fluid, and asexually, as by buds. See Parthenogenesis.
Digenous (a.) Sexually reproductive.
Digerent () Digesting.
Digested (imp. & p. p.) of Digest.
Digesting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Digest.
Digest (v. t.) 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.
Joining them together and digesting them into order. -- Blair.
We have cause to be glad that matters are so well digested. -- Shak.
Digest (v. t.) (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.
Digest (v. t.) 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.
Feelingly digest the words you speak in prayer. -- Sir H. Sidney.
How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy? -- Shak.
Digest (v. t.) To appropriate for strengthening and comfort.
Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. -- Book of Common Prayer.
Digest (v. t.) Hence: To bear comfortably or patiently; to be reconciled to; to brook.
I never can digest the loss of most of Origin's works. -- Coleridge.
Digest (v. t.) (Chem.) To soften by heat and moisture; to expose to a gentle heat in a boiler or matrass, as a preparation for chemical operations.
Digest (v. t.) (Med.) To dispose to suppurate, or generate healthy pus, as an ulcer or wound.
Digest (v. t.) To ripen; to mature. [Obs.]
Well-digested fruits. -- Jer. Taylor.
Digest (v. t.) To quiet or abate, as anger or grief.
Digest (v. i.) To undergo digestion; as, food digests well or ill.
Digest (v. i.) (Med.) To suppurate; to generate pus, as an ulcer.
Digest (n.) That which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles; esp.
Digest (n.) (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.
A complete digest of Hindu and Mahommedan laws after the model of Justinian's celebrated Pandects. -- Sir W. Jones.
They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. -- Burke.
Digest (n.) A periodical that summarizes the news.
Digest (n.) Something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) [syn: compilation, digest].
Digest (v.) Convert food into absorbable substances; "I cannot digest milk products".
Digest (v.) Arrange and integrate in the mind; "I cannot digest all this information".
Digest (v.) Put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up].
Digest (v.) Become assimilated into the body; "Protein digests in a few hours".
Digest (v.) Systematize, as by classifying and summarizing; "the government digested the entire law into a code".
Digest (v.) Soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
Digest (v.) Make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate].
Digest (v.) Soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture.
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.
Digest, () civil law. The name sometimes given to the Pandects of Justinian; it is so called because this compilation is reduced to order, quasi digestiae.
Digest, () 2. It is an abridgment of the decisions of the praetors and the works of the learned, and ancient writers on the law. It was made by order of the emperor Justinian, who, in 530, published an ordinance entitled De Conceptione Digestorum, which was addressed to Tribonian, and by which he was required to select some of the most distinguished lawyers to assist him in composing a collection of the best decisions of the ancient lawyers, and compile them is fifty books, without confusion or contradiction. The work was immediately commenced, and completed on the 16th of December, 533.
Digest, () 3. The Digest is divided in two different ways; the first, into fifty books, each book into several titles, and each title into several laws at the head of each of them is the name of the lawyer from. whose work it was taken.
Digest, () 4.-1. The first book contains twenty-two titles; the subject of the first is De justicia et jure; of the division of person and things; of magistrates, &c.
Digest, () 5.-2. The second, divided into fifteen titles, treats of the power of magistrates and their jurisdiction; the manner of commencing suits; of agreements and compromises.
Digest, () 6.-3. The third, composed of six titles, treats of those who can and those who cannot sue; of advocates and attorneys and syndics; and of calumny.
Digest, () 7.-4. The fourth, divided into nine titles, treats of causes of restitution of submissions and arbitrations; of minors, carriers by water, innkeepers and those who have the care of the property of others.
Digest, () 8.-5. In the fifth there are six titles, which. treat of jurisdiction and inofficious testaments.
Digest, () 9.-6. The subject, of the sixth, in which there are three titles, is actions.
Digest, () 10.-7. The seventh, in nine titles, embraces whatever concerns usufructs, personal servitudes, habitations, the uses of real estate, and its appurtenances, and of the sureties required of the usufructuary.
Digest, () 11.-8. The eighth book, in six titles, regulates urban and rural servitudes.
Digest, () 12.-9. The ninth book, in four titles, explains certain personal actions.
Digest, () 13.-10. The tenth, in four titles, treats of mixed actions.
Digest, () 14.-11. The object of the eleventh book, containing eight titles, is to regulate interrogatories, the cases of which the judge was to take cognizance, fugitive slaves, of gamblers, of surveyors who made false reports, and of funerals and funeral expenses.
Digest, () 15.-12. The twelfth book, in seven titles, regulates personal actions in which the plaintiff claims the title of a thing.
Digest, () 16.-13. The thirteenth, treats of certain particular actions, in seven titles.
Digest, () 17.-14. This, like the last, regulates certain actions: it has six titles.
Digest, () 18.-15. The fifteenth, in four titles, treats of actions for which a father or master is liable, in consequence of the acts of his children or slaves, and those to which he is entitled; of the peculium of children and slaves, and of the actions on this right.
Digest, () 19.-16. The sixteenth, in three titles, contains the law. relating to the senatus consultum velleianum, of compensation or set off, and of the action of deposit.
Digest, () 20.-17. The seventeenth, in two titles, expounds the law of mandates and partnership.
Digest, () 21.-18. The eighteenth book, in seven titles, explains the contract of sale.
Digest, () 22.-19. The nineteenth, in five titles, treats of the actions which arise on a contract of sale.
Digest, () 23.-20. The law relating to pawns, hypothecation, the preference among creditors, and subrogation, occupy the twentieth book, which contains six titles.
Digest, () 24.-21. The twenty-first book, explains under three titles, the edict of the ediles relating to the sale of slaves and animals; then what relates to evictions and warranties.
Digest, () 25.-22. The twenty-second treats of interest, profits and accessories of things, proofs, presumptions, and of ignorance of law and fact. It is divided into six titles.
Digest, () 26.-23. The twenty-third, in five titles, contains the law of marriage, and its accompanying agreements.
Digest, () 27.-24. The twenty-fourth, in three titles, regulates donations between husband and wife, divorces, and their consequence.
Digest, () 28.-25. The twenty-fifth is a continuation of the subject of the preceding. It contains seven titles.
Digest, () 29.-26 and 27. These two books, each in two titles, contain the law relating to tutorship and curatorship.
Digest, () 30.-28. The twenty-eighth, in eight titles, contain's the law on last wills and testaments.
Digest, () 31.-29. The twenty-ninth, in seven titles, is the continuation of the twenty-eighth book.
Digest, () 32.-30, 31, and 32. These three books, each divided into two titles, contain the law of trusts and specific legacies.
Digest, () 33.-33, 34, and 35. The first of these, divided into ten titles; the second, into nine titles; and the last into three titles, treat of various kinds of legacies.
Digest, () 34.-36. The thirty-sixth, containing four titles, explains the senatus consultum trebellianum, and the time when trusts become due.
Digest, () 35.-37. This book, containing fifteen titles, has two objects first, to regulate successions; and, secondly, the respect which children owe their parents, and freedmen their patrons.
Digest, () 36.-38. The thirty-eighth book, in seventeen titles, treats of a variety of subjects; of successions, and of the degree of kindred in successions; of possession; and of heirs.
Digest, () 37.-39. The thirty-ninth explains the means which the law and the prAEtor take to prevent a threatened iNjury; and donations inter vivos and mortis causa.
Digest, () 38.-40. The fortieth, in sixteen titles, treats of the state and condition of persons, and of what relates to freedmen and liberty.
Digest, () 39.-41. The different means of acquiring and losing title to property, are explained in the forty-first book, in ten titles.
Digest, () 40.-42. The forty-second, in eight titles, treats of the res judicata, and of the seizure and sale of the property of a debtor.
Digest, () 41.-43. Interdicts or possessory actions are the object of the forty-third book, in three titles.
Digest, () 42.-44. The forty-fourth contains an enumeration of defences which arise in consequence of the res judicata, from the lapse of time, prescription, andthe like. This occupies six titles; the seventh treats of obligations and actions.
Digest, () 43.-45. This speaks of stipulations, by freedmen, or by slaves. It contains only three titles.
Digest, () 44.-46. This book, in eight titles, treats of securities, novations, and delegations, payments, releases, and acceptilations.
Digest, () 45.-47. In the forty-seventh book are explained the punishments inflicted for private crimes, de privates delictis, among which are included larcenies, slander, libels, offences against religion, and public manners, removing boundaries, and other similar offences.
Digest, () 46.-48. This book treats of public crimes, among which are enumerated those Iaesae majestatis, adultery, murder, poisoning, parricide, extortion, and the like, with rules for procedure in such cases.
Digest, () 47.-49. The forty-ninth, in eighteen titles, treats of appeals, of the rights of the public treasury, of those who are in captivity, and of their repurchase.
Digest, () 48.-50. The last book, in seventeen titles, explains the rights of municipalities. and then treats of a variety of public officers.
Digest, () 49. Besides this division, Justinian made another, in which the fifty books were divided into seven parts: The first contains the first four books; the second, from the fifth to the eleventh book inclusive; the third, from the twelfth to the nineteenth inclusive; the fourth, from title twentieth to the twenty-seventh inclusive; the fifth, from the twenty-eighth to the thirty-sixth inclusive the sixth, commenced with the thirty seventh, and ended with the forty-fourth book; and the seventh or last was composed of the last six books.
Digest, () 50. A third division, which, however, is said not to have been made by Justinian, is in three parts. The first, called digestum vetus, because it was the first printed. It commences with the first book, and. includes the work to the end of the second title of the twenty-fourth book. The second, called digestum infortiatum, because it is supported or fortified by the other two, it being the middle; it commences with the beginning of the third title of the twenty-fourth book and ends with the thirty-eighth. The third, which begins with the thirty-ninth book and ends with the work, is called digestum novum, because it was last printed.
Digest, () 51. The Digest, although, compiled in Constantinople, was originally written in Latin, and afterwards translated into Greek.
Digest, () 52. This work was lost to all Europe during a considerable period, as indeed all the law works of Justinian were, except some fragments of the Code and Novels. During the pillage of Amalphi, in the war between the two soi-disant popes Innocent II. and Anaclet II., a soldier discovered an old manuscript, which attracted his attention by its envelope of many colors. It was carried to the emperor, Clothaire II., and proved to be the Pandects of Justinian. The work was arranged in its present order by Warner, a German, whose name, Latinised, is Irnerius, who was appointed professor of Roman law at Bologna, by that emperor. 1 Fournel, Hist. des Avocats, 44, 46, 51.
Digest, () 53. The Pandects contain all whatsoever Justinian drew out of 150,000 verses of the old books of the Roman law. The style of the Digest is very grave and pure, and differs not much from the eloquentist speech that ever the Romans used." The learning of the digest stands rather in the discussing of subtle questions of law, and enumerations of the variety of opinions of ancient lawyers thereupon, than in practical matters of daily use. The Code of Justinian differs in these respects from, the Digest. It is less methodical, but more practical; the style however, is a barbarous Thracian phrase Latinised, such as never any mean Latinist spoke. The work is otherwise rude and unskillful. Ridley's View of the Civ. & Ecc. Law, pt. 1, ch. 2, Sec. 1, and ch. 1, Sec. 2.
Digest, () 54. Different opinions are entertained upon the merits of the Digest, or Pandects, Code, Authentics and Feuds, as a system of jurisprudence. By some it has been severely criticised, and even harshly censured, and by others as warmly defended the one party discovering nothing but defects, and the other as obstinately determined to find nothing but what is good and valuable. See Felangieri della Legislazione, vol. 1, c. 7. It must be confessed that it is not without defects. It might have been comprehended in less extent, and in some parts arranged in better order. It must be confessed also that it is less congenial as a whole, with the principles of free government, than the common law of England. Yet, with all these defects, it is a rich fountain of learning and reason; and of this monument of the high culture and wisdom of the Roman jurists it may be said, as of all other works in which the good so much surpasses the bad.
Ut plura intent in carmine non ego paucis Offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit Aut humana parum cavit natura.
HORAT. ART. POETIC, v. 351.
Digest (v.) (Eat) (C1) [ I or T ] （使）消化 To change food in your stomach into substances that your body can use.
// I find that I don't digest meat easily.
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Digest (v.) (Understand) (C1) [ T ] 理解，吸收（資訊） To read or hear new information and take the necessary time to understand it.
// This chapter is so difficult to digest, I'll have to read it again later.
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Digester (n.) One who digests.
Digester (n.) A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power.
Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. -- Sir W. Temple.
Digester (n.) 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.
Digester (n.) Autoclave consisting of a vessel in which plant or animal materials are digested.
Digestibility (n.) The quality of being digestible.
Digestibility (n.) The property of being easy to digest [syn: digestibility, digestibleness] [ant: indigestibility, indigestibleness].
Digestible (a.) Capable of being digested.
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Digestibleness (n.) The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
Digestibleness (n.) The property of being easy to digest [syn: digestibility, digestibleness] [ant: indigestibility, indigestibleness].
Digestion (n.) 消化力，領悟 The act or process of digesting; reduction to order; classification; thoughtful consideration.
Digestion (n.) (Physiol.) The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, into soluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by the blood.
Digestion (n.) [ C or U ] (C1) 消化；消化能力 The process by which your body digests food, or your ability to digest food.
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// Poor/ good/ strong digestion.
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