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The Meaning of peptic
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(a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
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(a.) Able to digest.
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(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.
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(n.) An agent that promotes digestion.
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(n.) The digestive organs.
Rhymes
antiseptic
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dyspeptic
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epileptic
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sceptic
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septic
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skeptic