Category:Peptic

Pep"tic, a. Etym: [l. pepticus, gr. 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.)

Defn: 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.

Peptic Pep"tic, n.

1. An agent that promotes digestion.

2. pl.

Defn: the digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, or do my peptics differ tennyson.