PEPTIC

peptic. Peptic, a. digestive, promoting digestion, easing

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Pep″tic (pĕp″tĭk), a. [[L. pepticus, Gr. πεπτικόσ. See Pepsin.]] 1. 1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
2. 2. Able to digest.
Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic. Carlyle. 3. 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.