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.
CLEANSE
cleanse, clean
(verb) clean one’s body or parts thereof, as by washing; “clean up before you see your grandparents”; “clean your fingernails before dinner”
cleanse
(verb) purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; “Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
cleanse (third-person singular simple present cleanses, present participle cleansing, simple past and past participle cleansed)
(transitive) To free from dirt; to clean, to purify.
(transitive) To spiritually purify; to free from guilt or sin; to purge.
Noun
cleanse (plural cleanses)
An act of cleansing; a purification.
Synonym: cleansing
Anagrams
• Senecal, canelĂ©s, elances, enlaces, enscale, scalene
Source: Wiktionary
Cleanse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleansed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleansing.] Etym: [AS. clænsian, fr. clæne clean. See Clean.]
Definition: To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the suffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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