Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
Able to digest. [R.] Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic. Carlyle.
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.
An agent that promotes digestion.
The digestive organs. Is there some magic in the place, Or do my peptics differ Tennyson.
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