1. (a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.

2. (a.) Able to digest.

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.