Thesaurus: peptic

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1. a. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
2. a. Able to digest.
3. a. 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.
4. n. An agent that promotes digestion.
5. n. The digestive organs.
6. adj. relating to or promoting digestion
7. 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. 1. An agent that promotes digestion. 2. pl. The digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ Tennyson.
8. Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power ofdigesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yieldingpepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.
9. j:100 a. relating to or promoting digestion