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.
AUTOTYPED
Verb
autotyped
simple past tense and past participle of autotype
Source: Wiktionary
AUTOTYPE
Au"to*type, n. Etym: [Auto- + -type: cf. F. autotype.]
1. A facsimile.
2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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