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.
COMPLEMENTATION
complementation
(noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
complementation (countable and uncountable, plural complementations)
(mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement
(genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
(grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
Source: Wiktionary
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SUNLIT
(adjective) lighted by sunlight; “the sunlit slopes of the canyon”; “violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges”- Wallace Stegner
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