Catalytic effects of poly(acrylic acid-co-N-acryloylhistamine) (His-AA) or a terpolymer of acrylic acid, N-acryloylhistamine, and (V-acryloyl-n-hexylamine (Ce-His-AA) on the hydrolyses of p-nitrophenyl acetate (PNPA) or Ñ-carbobenzoxy-L-phenylalanine p-nitrophenyl ester (Z-Phe-ONP) are examined at various temperatures and pressures. In the hydrolysis of PNPA, all catalysts accelerate the reaction linearly with their concentration, whereas in the hydrolysis of Z-Phe-ONP catalyzed by C6-His-AA, a saturation phenomenon is observed because of a complexation process like enzyme catalysis due to the hydrophobic interaction between the substrate and the catalyst. By double-reciprocal plots, both the reaction rate and dissociation constant of the substrate-catalyst complex are determined. Comparison of thermodynamic parameters such as AH*, AS*, AV*, AH, AS, and AV of these polymeric reaction systems with those of imidazole-catalyzed ones shows an increase in AV* and a decrease in AS*, which suggest the important role of the desolvation effect and the restricted conformation effect of the ionic polymer catalyst, respectively.