Word Meanings - PEPTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) 1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion;

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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. (more info) 1. Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces. 2. Able to digest. Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic. Carlyle.

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• DIGESTER
  1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• PEPSINHYDROCHLORIC
  See PEPTOHYDROCHLORIC
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• MATTER
  1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• DIGESTIBLE
  Capable of being digested.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• DISSOLVATIVE
  Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. Frampton.
• YIELDABLE
  Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• YIELDANCE
  1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
• PEPTICS
  The science of digestion.
• DISSOLVE
  1. To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up. 2. To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak. 3. To fade away; to fall
• DISSOLVENT
  A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc. (more info) 1. That which has the power of dissolving or melting other substances, esp. by mixture with them; a menstruum; a solvent. Melted in the
• YIELDING
  Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• PEPSIN
  An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the
• PROMOTE
  1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• EUPEPTIC
  Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man. Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat. Carlyle.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• INDIGEST
  Crude; unformed; unorganized; undigested. "A chaos rude and indigest." W. Browne. "Monsters and things indigest." Shak.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• INDIGESTIBLE
  1. Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption. 2. Not digestible in the mind; distressful; intolerable; as, an indigestible simile. T. Warton. -- In`di*gest"i*ble*ness,
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER