Dictionary entry

Digestive (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Di‐gest″ive, n. 1. That which aids digestion, as a food or medicine. Chaucer.

That digestive had become to me as necessary as the meal itself. Blackw. Mag.

2. (Med.) (a) A substance which, when applied to a wound or ulcer, promotes suppuration. Dunglison. (b) A tonic.