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.
BARBARIZED
Verb
barbarized
simple past tense and past participle of barbarize
Source: Wiktionary
BARBARIZE
Bar"ba*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized (; p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing (.]
1. To become barbarous. The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey.
2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton.
Bar"ba*rize, v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare.]
Definition: To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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