Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
TERCE
terce, tierce
(noun) the third canonical hour; about 9 a.m.
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)
(historical) The third hour of daylight (about 9 am).
(chiefly, Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.
(Scotland, legal) A widow's right, where she has no conventional provision, to a liferent of a third of the husband's heritable property.
Synonyms
• (hour): undern, half undern, undermeal, underntide, undertide (obsolete)
• (service): undern-song (obsolete)
Hypernyms
• (both senses): canonical hour
• (service): liturgy of the hours
Anagrams
• -crete, Crete, erect, recte
Source: Wiktionary
Terce, n.
Definition: See Tierce.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
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