Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
PURVEYING
Verb
purveying
present participle of purvey
Source: Wiktionary
PURVEY
Pur*vey", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purveyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Purveying.] Etym: [OE. purveien, porveien, OF. porveeir, porveoir, F. pourvoir, fr. L. providere. See Provide, and cf. Purview.]
1. To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like. Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day. Spenser.
2. To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.
Pur*vey", v. i.
1. To purchase provisions; to provide; to make provision. Chaucer. Milton.
2. To pander; -- with to. " Their turpitude purveys to their malice." [R.] Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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