Dictionary

caffeinic en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Related to or containing caffeine.
   • The groundwork for General Foods was laid by Charles W. Post, a health enthusiast who tried to seduce America’s coffee drinkers away from the caffeinic drink with a cereal beverage he called Postum. 1988, International Directory of Company Histories, volume 7, St. James Press, →ISBN, page 272:
   • Toxæmic headaches are of many varieties—malarial, rheumatic, gouty, uræmic, alcoholic, caffeinic, gastric, diabetic, cardiac, and pulmonic. 1887 August 15, William R. Huggard, “Nervous Diseases and their Diagnosis. A Treatise upon the Phenomena produced by Diseases of the Nervous System, with especial Reference to the Recognition of their Causes. By H. C. Wood, M.D., LL.D. Philadelphia: Lippincott Compy. 1887.”, in The London Medical Record: A Monthly Review of the Progress of the Medical Sciences and of Subjects relating to Public Health, number 146, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., page 372:
   • Beyond a penchant for beef, caffeinic drink, tobacco, and alcohol, cowboys differed widely in their tastes. 1990, Richard W. Slatta, Cowboys of the Americas, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 115:

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Synonyms

caffeinated (containing caffeine)