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.
DARTLE
Etymology
Verb
dartle (third-person singular simple present dartles, present participle dartling, simple past and past participle dartled)
To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly.
Anagrams
• LARTed, alter'd, altred, latred
Source: Wiktionary
Dar"tle, v. t. & i.
Definition: To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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