Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science or doctrine of digestion.
- noun The digestive organs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of digestion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
science ofdigestion . - noun Plural form of
peptic .
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Examples
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Can we not digest without a theory of peptics, or do justice without constructing an ideal state?
Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Henry Jones 1887
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