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.
CONTINUANT
fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident
(adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as ‘f’, ‘s’, ‘z’, or ‘th’ in both ‘thin’ and ‘then’)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
continuant (plural continuants)
(phonetics) A linguistic sound other than a stop.
Coordinate term: sonorant
(mathematics) A determinant formed from a tridiagonal matrix.
(ontology) An endurant.
Adjective
continuant (comparative more continuant, superlative most continuant)
Continuing; prolonged; sustained.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*tin"u*ant, a.
Definition: Continuing; prolonged; sustained; as, a continuant sound.
– n.
Definition: A continuant sound; a letter whose sound may be prolonged.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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