Bible Dictionaries
Peptic

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Peptic'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/peptic.html. 1828.