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   Digestive , a. [F. digestif, L. digestivus.] Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.
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   Digestive cheese and fruit there sure will be.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   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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   Digestive, n.
   That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
   Chaucer.
   
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   That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.
   Blackw. Mag.
   
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   (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic. [R.]
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