Noah Webster
Digestive
DIGESTIVE, adjective
1. Having the power to cause digestion in the stomach; as a digestive preparation or medicine.
2. Capable of softening and preparing by heat.
3. Methodizing; reducing to order; as digestive thought.
4. Causing maturation in wounds or ulcers.
5. Dissolving.
DIGESTIVE, noun
1. In medicine, any preparation or medicine which increases the tone of the stomach, and aids digestion; a stomachic; a corroborant.
2. In surgery, an application which ripens an ulcer or wound, or disposes it to suppurate.
DIGESTIVE salt, the muriate of potash.