eupepsia

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The Vice President could ill afford the eupepsia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Critics call him "politically ambivalent" because he "has lunch with Johnson and dinner with Bobby Kennedy"-which, occasionally, he does, and which is only one indication of his savvy, eupepsia and party loyalty.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor was the Vice President's eupepsia restored by Senator Edward Kennedy's hardening decision to stay out of this year's presidential race.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peptic′ity, eupepsia; Pep′tics, digestion considered as a science: the digestive organs; Pep′togen, a substance producing peptone, any preparation that facilitates digestion.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

I venture to say this in explanation of my stubborn optimism, which is due much less to any tranquil philosophy I may have imbibed than to my inveterate eupepsia.

From The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe by Hosmer, James Kendall