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.
ERECTIONS
Noun
erections
plural of erection
Anagrams
• isocenter, isocentre, necrotise, neoterics, resection, secretion, tricosene
Source: Wiktionary
ERECTION
E*rec"tion, n. Etym: [L. erectio: cf. F. Ă©rection.]
1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes. Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. Sidney
3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
5. (Physiol.)
Definition: The state of a part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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