caffeinic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪnɪk

Adjective

caffeinic (comparative more caffeinic, superlative most caffeinic)

1. Related to or containing caffeine.
   • 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:

     Toxæmic headaches are of many varieties—malarial, rheumatic, gouty, uræmic, alcoholic, caffeinic, gastric, diabetic, cardiac, and pulmonic.

   • 1988, International Directory of Company Histories, volume 7, St. James Press, →ISBN, page 272:

     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.

   • 1990, Richard W. Slatta, Cowboys of the Americas, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 115:

     Beyond a penchant for beef, caffeinic drink, tobacco, and alcohol, cowboys differed widely in their tastes.

Synonyms

• (containing caffeine): caffeinated