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.
BEMUSED
baffled, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confounded, confused, lost, mazed, mixed-up, at sea
(adjective) perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment; “obviously bemused by his questions”; “bewildered and confused”; “a cloudy and confounded philosopher”; “just a mixed-up kid”; “she felt lost on the first day of school”
bemused, lost, preoccupied
(adjective) deeply absorbed in thought; “as distant and bemused as a professor listening to the prattling of his freshman class”; “lost in thought”; “a preoccupied frown”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
bemused
simple past tense and past participle of bemuse
Adjective
bemused (comparative more bemused, superlative most bemused)
deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
perplexed and bewildered
Source: Wiktionary
BEMUSE
Be*muse", v. t.
Definition: To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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