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.