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eupeptic, a. and n.|juːˈpɛptɪk|
[f. Gr. εὔπεπτ-ος easy of digestion, having a good digestion (f. εὐ- eu- + πέπ-τειν to digest) + -ic.]
A. adj.
†1. Promoting ‘eupepsy,’ assisting digestion. rare.
1699Evelyn Acetaria 89 Those [herbs] that are Eupeptic, and promote concoction.
2. Having a good digestion.
1831Carlyle Schiller Misc. Ess. (1888) III. 87 The perennial never-failing joys of a digestive apparatus thoroughly eupeptic. 1848Clough Bothie iii. 10 E'en after dinner, eupeptic, would rush yet again to his reading.
absol.1883Times 8 Mar. 9/3 City dinners may be an excellent form of amusement for the eupeptic and robust.
3. Of or pertaining to ‘eupepsy’ or good digestion; characteristic of, or resulting from, good digestion.
1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) IV. 241 A massiveness of eupeptic vigour. 1859Lewes Phys. Com. Life I. 137 Persons..living in that happy eupeptic ignorance which only knows Digestion as a name. 1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) I. 172 At length his faculties were getting hebetated, wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat.
4. nonce-use. Studious of what conduces to good digestion.
1871Collins Mrq. & Merch. III. ii. 60 Terrell, never scientifically eupeptic, went in for a couple of dozen [oysters].
5. Easy of digestion; easily digested.
1864in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
†B. n. (cf. tonic, sudorific, etc.) Obs.—0
1731Bailey vol. II, Eupepticks, medicines, or other things that promote concoction.
Hence eupepˈticity, the state or condition of feeling resulting from good digestion.
1849Carlyle Irish Journ. 152 Simplicity, energy, eupepticity; a right healthy thick-sided Irish soul. 1865― Fredk. Gt. V. xiii. vii. 77 No man..has swum through such seas of transcendent eupepticity. |
