The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eupeptic \Eu*pep"tic\, a. [Gr. ?.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 of or relating to good digestion 2 having good digestion 3 cheerful
Usage examples of "eupeptic".
A smallish, eupeptic gentleman, he inquired politely if they were bringing any items to Earth for sale.
He felt that between the Galliards and the friendly eupeptic people he had been meeting there was a difference, not of degree, but of kind.
Professor with a eupeptic body might take such a view, but if one found oneself with cancer of the stomach in a London garret, one might question the doctrine that there was no need to yearn for any state of being save that in which we found ourselves.
As to the self-sufficiency of this world, a successful Professor with a eupeptic body might take such a view, but if one found oneself with cancer of the stomach in a London garret, one might question the doctrine that there was no need to yearn for any state of being save that in which we found ourselves.
If his own remaining years were to pass in moderate tranquility, if his heir was to be unharassed by fraternal cares, if the bouquet of the Dromio wines and the pile of the Dromio carpets were to regain that excellence which would come only from the superintendence of a eupeptic palate and untroubled eye, then it was essential that the late decisive action of Lady Dromio should be met by countermeasures of a like decisiveness.
Again, if Father San Browne, tea and toaster to that quaintesttest of yarnspinners is Padre Don Bruno, treu and troster to the queen of Iar-Spain, was the reverend, the sodality director, that eupeptic viceflayer, a barefaced carmelite,to whose palpitating pulpit (which of us but remembers the rarevalent and hornerable Fratomistor Nawlanmore and Brawne.