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.
ECTYPAL
Adjective
ectypal
Copied, as contrasted with an archetypal original.
(philosophy) Corresponding to external reality.
What would you have! do I not acknowledge a twofold state of things, the one ectypal or natural, the other archetypal and eternal? The former was created in time; the latter existed from everlasting in the mind of God.
Source: Wiktionary
Ec"ty*pal, a. Etym: [L. ectypus worked in high relief, Gr. Type.]
Definition: Copied, reproduced as a molding or cast, in contradistinction from the original model.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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