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.
| 1699 Evelyn Acetaria 89 Those [herbs] that are Eupeptic, and promote concoction. |
2. Having a good digestion.
| 1831 Carlyle Schiller Misc. Ess. (1888) III. 87 The perennial never-failing joys of a digestive apparatus thoroughly eupeptic. 1848 Clough Bothie iii. 10 E'en after dinner, eupeptic, would rush yet again to his reading. |
| absol. 1883 Times 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.
| 1845 Carlyle Cromwell (1871) IV. 241 A massiveness of eupeptic vigour. 1859 Lewes Phys. Com. Life I. 137 Persons..living in that happy eupeptic ignorance which only knows Digestion as a name. 1866 Carlyle 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.
| 1871 Collins Mrq. & Merch. III. ii. 60 Terrell, never scientifically eupeptic, went in for a couple of dozen [oysters]. |
5. Easy of digestion; easily digested.
| 1864 in Webster; and in mod. Dicts. |
† B. n. (
cf. tonic,
sudorific, etc.)
Obs.—0| 1731 Bailey vol. II, Eupepticks, medicines, or other things that promote concoction. |
Hence
eupepˈticity, the state or condition of feeling resulting from good digestion.
| 1849 Carlyle 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. |