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The Meaning of peptic

  • (a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
  • (a.) Able to digest.
  • (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.
  • (n.) An agent that promotes digestion.
  • (n.) The digestive organs.

Rhymes

antiseptic , dyspeptic , epileptic , sceptic , septic , skeptic