peptonize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.
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to hydrolyze or dissolve by a proteolytic enzyme, as pepsin.
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Is it better to peptonize the whole day's supply, or each bottle separately just before feeding?
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
To completely peptonize the milk, two hours are required.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
Partially peptonized milk assists greatly in digesting the curd of milk.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
May Take.—Soups.—Turtle or oyster soup, mutton, clam, or chicken broth, puree of barley, rice, peas, beans, cream of celery or tomatoes, whole beef tea; peptonized milk, gruel.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
“Just after my youngest child was—” A nurse passes through the grove, bearing a sterilized tray with peptonized preparations on it.
From Ladies-In-Waiting by Curtiss, Christine Tucke
The preparation given in recipe No. 1, or with the barley water added, may be peptonized.
From Public School Domestic Science by Hoodless, Adelaide
Dietetic Treatment.—The first day the patient is given a small cup of weak tea, half a glass of buttermilk or peptonized milk, or a cup of well-skimmed meat broth, every three or four hours.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.
As Author William Bolitho once wrote, adventure's "adepts are rarely chaste, or merciful, or even law-abiding at all, and any moral peptonizing, or sugaring, takes out the interest, with the truth, of their lives."
From Time Magazine Archive
The plain or modified milk is placed in a clean glass jar or bottle, and the peptonizing powder, which is first rubbed up with a tablespoonful of the milk, is added and the bottle shaken.
From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett
Synchronous with this increase, the peptonizing and gas-producing bacteria gradually disappear.
From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by Russell, H. L. (Harry Luman)
Sometimes peptonizing the food for a short time will do.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
They wanted me to examine the aphorisms and orisonswettmardenisms they had been printing on their weekly envelopes, for the inspiration and peptonizing of their employees.
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
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