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Webster 1913 Edition
Peptic
1.
Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive;
as,
. peptic
sauces2.
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
glandsPep′tic
,Noun.
1.
An agent that promotes digestion.
2.
pl.
The digestive organs.
Is there some magic in the place,
Or do my
Or do my
peptics
differ? Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Peptic
PEP'TIC
,Adj.
Promoting digestion; dietetic, as peptic precepts.