Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
ANTIPERISTASIS
Etymology
Noun
antiperistasis (usually uncountable, plural antiperistases)
(philosophy) The heightening of the force of an opposing process
Source: Wiktionary
An`ti*pe*ris"ta*sis, n. Etym: [Gr.
Definition: Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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