Pep"tic (?), a. [L. pepticus, Gr. . See Pepsin.]
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.
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Pep"tic, n.
1.
An agent that promotes digestion.
2. pl.
The digestive organs.
Is there some magic in the place,
Or do my peptics differ?
Tennyson.
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