\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.

\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.