Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
ANTEDATED
Verb
antedated
simple past tense and past participle of antedate
Source: Wiktionary
ANTEDATE
An"te*date`, n.
1. Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
2. Anticipation. [Obs.] Donne.
An"te*date`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Antedated; p. pr. & vb. n. Antedating.]
1. To date before the true time; to assign to an earlier date; thus, to antedate a deed or a bond is to give it a date anterior to the true time of its execution.
2. To precede in time.
3. To anticipate; to make before the true time. And antedate the bliss above. Pope. Who rather rose the day to antedate. Wordsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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