·adj Able to digest.
II. Peptic ·noun The digestive organs.
III. Peptic ·noun An agent that promotes digestion.
IV. Peptic ·adj Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
V. Peptic ·adj 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.