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.
EVOKED
elicited, evoked
(adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation; “evoked potentials”; “an elicited response”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
evoked
simple past tense and past participle of evoke
Source: Wiktionary
EVOKE
E*voke", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Evoking.] Etym: [L. evocare; e out + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice: cf. F Ă©voquer. See Voice, and cf. Evocate.]
1. To call out; to summon forth. To evoke the queen of the fairies. T. Warton. A requlating discipline of exercise, that whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted. De Quincey.
2. To call away; to remove from one tribunal to another. [R.] "The cause was evoked to Rome." Hume.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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