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.
DISPONE
Etymology
Verb
dispone (third-person singular simple present dispones, present participle disponing, simple past and past participle disponed)
(transitive, law) To convey legal authority to another.
(transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to dispose.
Anagrams
• Pinedos, pedions, spinode, spondei
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*pone", v. t. Etym: [L. disponere. See Disposition.]
1. (Her.)
Definition: To dispose.
2. To dispose of. Chaucer.
3. (Scots Law)
Definition: To make over, or convey, legally. He has disponed . . . the whole estate. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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