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.
ANGLICIZED
Verb
anglicized
simple past tense and past participle of anglicize
Adjective
anglicized (comparative more anglicized, superlative most anglicized)
Converted to English in form, idiom, style or character.
Borrowed from English
Source: Wiktionary
ANGLICIZE
An"gli*cize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anglicized; p. pr. & vb. n. Anglicizing.]
Definition: To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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