Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
EREMITIC
anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical
(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude; “the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony”; “his hermitic existence”
eremitic, eremitical
(adjective) of or relating to or befitting eremites or their practices of hermitic living; “eremitic austerities”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
eremitic (comparative more eremitic, superlative most eremitic)
Characteristic of a hermit
Source: Wiktionary
Er`e*mit"ic, Er`e*mit"ic*al, a.
Definition: Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." Fuller. "The eremitic instinct." Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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