peptic Meaning, Definition & Usage

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.