ingest Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb serve oneself to, or consume regularly
    have; take in; consume; take.
    • Have another bowl of chicken soup!
    • I don't take sugar in my coffee
  2. verb take up mentally
    assimilate; absorb; take in.
    • he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe

WordNet

In*gest" transitive verb
Etymology
L. ingenium, p. p. of ingerere to put in; pref. in- in + gerere to bear.
Definitions
  1. To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal. Sir T. Browne.

Webster 1913