J C Lawrence wrote: >>It's a bad use of an English word for an almost-contradictory geekish >>meaning. > > > Actually its a rather standard even almost common definition and use of > the word digest (to arrange methodically etc). >
It doesn't distribute or arrange them methodically -- it slaps one on the end of the previous. Besides, we're talking nouns, not verbs here. The noun definitions follow this sense: 1 : a summation or condensation of a body of information: as a : a systematic compilation of legal rules, statutes, or decisions b : a periodical devoted to condensed versions of previously published articles ...and digests are neither summations nor condensations.
