Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
FACTIVE
Etymology 1
Adjective
factive (not comparable)
(grammar, of a verb) Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims assumed to be true.
(epistemology, of a knowing agent) Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths.
Noun
factive (plural factives)
(grammar) A factive verb.
Etymology 2
Adjective
factive (not comparable)
(obsolete) Making.
Source: Wiktionary
Fac"tive, a.
Definition: Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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