peptic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective relating to or promoting digestion
    • peptic juices

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Pep"tic adjective
Etymology
L. pepticus, Gr. . See Pepsin.
Definitions
  1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
  2. Able to digest. R.
    Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic. Carlyle.
  3. (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.
Pep"tic noun
Definitions
  1. An agent that promotes digestion.
  2. pl. The digestive organs.
    Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ? Tennyson.

Webster 1913