(1):
(a.) Able to digest.
(2):
(a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(n.) An agent that promotes digestion.
(5):
(n.) The digestive organs.