Pep″tic (pĕp″tĭk), a. [L. pepticus, Gr. πεπτικόσ. See Pepsin.] 1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.
2. Able to digest.
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.