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.
ASTEISM
Etymology
Noun
asteism (countable and uncountable, plural asteisms)
Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another.
Anagrams
• miseats, misseat, samites, tamises
Source: Wiktionary
As"te*ism, n. Etym: [Gr. astéisme.] (Rhet.)
Definition: Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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