demission (plural demissions)
(archaic) Resignation; abdication.
• Simonides, minisodes, missioned, simonised
Source: Wiktionary
De*mis"sion, n. Etym: [L. demissio, fr. demittere. See Demit.]
1. The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection. "Demission of mind." Hammond. Demission of sovereign authority. L'Estrange.
2. Resignation of an office. [Scot.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 May 2024
(noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; “hundreds of people attended his funeral”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
