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Eupeptic   Listen
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Eupeptic  adj.  Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man. "Wrapt in lazy eupeptic fat."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Eupeptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... waistcoat, but not so that, when he dropped his eyes, the blunt toes of his russet shoes were not in evidence. His pin-checked suit was pressed to a knife-edge, and his brocaded cravat folded to a nicety; there was an air of complete well-being about him. Men can acquire that sort of eupeptic well-being in a Turkish bath. Young mothers ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst

... of which is made all too sensible of it by the conversion of his food to wind,—a wind that puffs him up. On the other hand, a virtue that breathes so freely as not to be aware of its breathing is the right moral analogue of a thoroughly eupeptic state; as "the healthy know not of their health, but ...
— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson



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