What does "peptic" mean?
Peptic: Able to digest. [R.] Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic. Carlyle.
Additional senses
- 2.(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.
- 3.An agent that promotes digestion.
- 4.pl. The digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ Tennyson.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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