Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
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.
Source : WordNet®
peptic
adj : relating to or promoting digestion; "peptic juices"