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.
DISPARKS
Verb
disparks
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispark
Source: Wiktionary
DISPARK
Dis*park", v. t.
1. To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.
2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all. Waller.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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