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.
DICOUMAROL
dicumarol, dicoumarol
(noun) an anticoagulant drug that has now been largely replaced by warfarin
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
dicoumarol (countable and uncountable, plural dicoumarols)
An anticoagulant that functions as a vitamin K antagonist, also used in biochemical experiments as an inhibitor of reductases.
Source: Wiktionary
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ALIENATED
(adjective) socially disoriented; “anomic loners musing over their fate”; “we live in an age of rootless alienated people”
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