Definition of digest:
(v) :
to distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; 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
"to digest laws"
(n) :
that which is digested; especially, that which is worked over, classified, and arranged under proper heads or titles; a compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged; a summary of laws