Digestive — Defs

01 a. Pertaining to digestion; having the power to cause or promote digestion; as, the digestive ferments.

1.
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.

Phrases & compounds

Digestive apparatus — the organs of food digestion, esp. the alimentary canal and glands connected with it.

Digestive salt — the chloride of potassium.

02 n. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.

1.
That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine.
“That digestive [a cigar] had become to me as necessary as the meal itself.” — Blackw. Mag.
2.
A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration.(Med.) [R.]