In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
ADDICT
addict
(noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms
addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky
(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; “a golf addict”; “a car nut”; “a bodybuilding freak”; “a news junkie”
addict, hook
(verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
addict (plural addicts)
A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
An adherent or fan (of something)
Synonyms
• (person who is addicted): junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave
• (adherent or fan): adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue
• See also addict
Verb
addict (third-person singular simple present addicts, present participle addicting, simple past and past participle addicted)
To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a drug
To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
(obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
Synonyms
• (cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug): get (someone) hooked
• (devote): consecrate, dedicate, devote
• (adapt): adapt, fit
Anagrams
• didact
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*dict", p. p.
Definition: Addicted; devoted. [Obs.]
Ad*dict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Addicted; p. pr. & vb. n. Addicting.] Etym: [L. addictus, p. p. of addicere to adjudge, devote; ad + dicere to say. See Diction.]
1. To apply habitually; to devote; to habituate; -- with to. "They addict themselves to the civil law." Evelyn. He is addicted to his study. Beau. & Fl. That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations. Adventurer. His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.
2. To adapt; to make suitable; to fit. [Obs.] The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.
Syn.
– Addict, Devote, Consecrate, Dedicate. Addict was formerly used in a good sense; as, addicted to letters; but is now mostly employed in a bad sense or an indifferent one; as, addicted to vice; addicted to sensual indulgence. "Addicted to staying at home." J. S. Mill. Devote is always taken in a good sense, expressing habitual earnestness in the pursuit of some favorite object; as, devoted to science. Consecrate and dedicate express devotion of a higher kind, involving religious sentiment; as, consecrated to the service of the church; dedicated to God.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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