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Peptic
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. An agent that promotes digestion.
2. The digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ Tennyson.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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. 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.