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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Peptic  \Pep"tic\,  n. 
  1.  An  agent  that  promotes  digestion. 
 
  2.  pl  The  digestive  organs. 
 
  Is  there  some  magic  in  the  place  Or  do  my  peptics 
  differ?  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Peptic  \Pep"tic\,  a.  [L.  pepticus,  Gr  ?.  See  {Pepsin}.] 
  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.  (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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  peptic 
  adj  :  relating  to  or  promoting  digestion;  "peptic  juices"




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