peptic

1. a. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces. Source: opted

2. a. Able to digest. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

4. n. An agent that promotes digestion. Source: opted

5. n. The digestive organs. Source: opted

6. adj. relating to or promoting digestion Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

9. j:100 a. relating to or promoting digestion Source: ecdict

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