Peptic

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·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.