Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ALTERNATIVELY
alternatively, instead, or else
(adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to; “Felix became a herpetologist instead”; “alternatively we could buy a used car”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
alternatively (not comparable)
in an alternative way
(conjunctive) Used to link a pair of possibilities
Source: Wiktionary
Al*ter"na*tive*ly, adv.
Definition: In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
ALTERNATIVE
Al*ter"na*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. alternatif.]
1. Offering a choice of two things.
2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] Holland.
Al*ter"na*tive, n. Etym: [Cf. F. alternative, LL. alternativa.]
1. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left. There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. Burke.
2. Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives. Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. Jowett (Thucyd. ).
3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. Lewis. With no alternative but death. Longfellow.
4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of thalternatives. Gladstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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