Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
TRACTATE
Etymology
Noun
tractate (plural tractates)
A treatise,
Source: Wiktionary
Tract"ate, n. Etym: [L. tractatus a touching, handling, treatise. See Tractable, and Tract a treatise, Treaty.]
Definition: A treatise; a tract; an essay. Agreeing in substance with Augustin's, from whose fourteenth Tractate on St. John the words are translated. Hare.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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