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.
BONDAGES
Noun
bondages
plural of bondage
Anagrams
• dogbanes, dogs-bane, endobags
Source: Wiktionary
BONDAGE
Bond"age, n. Etym: [LL. bondagium. See Bond, a.]
1. The state of being bound; condition of being under restraint; restraint of personal liberty by compulsion; involuntary servitude; slavery; captivity. The King, when he designed you for my guard, Resolved he would not make my bondage hard. Dryden.
2. Obligation; tie of duty. He must resolve by no means to be . . . brought under the bondage of onserving oaths. South.
3. (Old Eng. Law)
Definition: Villenage; tenure of land on condition of doing the meanest services for the owner.
Syn.
– Thralldom; bond service; imprisonment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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