Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CULPABLE
blameworthy, blamable, blameable, blameful, censurable, culpable
(adjective) deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious; “blameworthy if not criminal behavior”; “censurable misconduct”; “culpable negligence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
culpable (comparative more culpable, superlative most culpable)
Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy.
Source: Wiktionary
Cul"pa*ble (kl"p-b'l), a. Etym: [OE. culpable, coulpable, coupable, F. coupable, formerly also coupable, formerly also coulpable, culpable, fr. L. culpabilis, fr. culpare to blame, fr. culpa fault.]
1. Deserving censure; worthy of blame; faulty; immoral; criminal. State Trials (1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.
2. Guilty; as, clpable of a crime. [Obs.] Spenser.
– Cul"pa*ble*ness, n.
– Cul"pa*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
20 April 2024
MULTIPHASE
(adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle
Coffee Trivia
