Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
COLLATED
Verb
collated
simple past tense and past participle of collate
Source: Wiktionary
COLLATE
Col*late", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Collated; p. pr. & vb. n. Collating.] Etym: [From Collation.]
1. To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.
2. To gather and place in order, as the sheets of a book for binding.
3. (Eccl.)
Definition: To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
4. To bestow or confer. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Col*late", v. i. (Ecl.)
Definition: To place in a benefice, when the person placing is both the patron and the ordinary. If the bishop neglets to collate within six months, the right to do it devolves on the archbishop. Encyc. Brit.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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