digestive

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Old French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus. Doublet of digestif.

Then a pause, followed by "TAKE A PURKINJE'S DIGESTIVE PILL." — Tales of Space and Time, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Smith's Supreme Digestive Pellets--he had given them a more than fair trial. — The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories, P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
An animal high in the scale may be represented in a general way, we said, as a sensori-motor nervous system imposed on digestive, respiratory, circulatory systems, etc. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri

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