- (a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
- (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.
- (a.) Able to digest.
- (n.) The digestive organs.
- (n.) An agent that promotes digestion.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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