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.
ENDEMICS
Noun
endemics
plural of endemic
Anagrams
• cnemides, midscene
Source: Wiktionary
ENDEMIC
En*de"mic, En*de"mic*al, a. Etym: [Gr. endémique.] (Med.)
Definition: Peculiar to a district or particular locality, or class of persons; as, an endemic disease.
Note: An endemic disease is one which is constantly present to a greater or less degree in any place, as distinguished from an epidemic disease, which prevails widely at some one time, or periodically, and from a sporadic disease, of which a few instances occur now and then.
En*dem"ic, n. (Med.)
Definition: An endemic disease. Fear, which is an endemic latent in every human heart, sometimes rises into an epidemic. J. B. Heard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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