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.
EXCRUCIATING
agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome
(adjective) extremely painful
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
excruciating (comparative more excruciating, superlative most excruciating)
Causing great pain or anguish, agonizing
Exceedingly intense; extreme
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*cru"ci*a`ting
Definition: . Torturing; racking. "Excruciating pain." V. Knox. "Excruciating fears." Bentley -- Ex*cru"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.
EXCRUCIATE
Ex*cru"ci*ate, a. Etym: [L. excruciatus, p. p. of excruciare to excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. See Cruciate, Cross.]
Definition: Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman.
Ex*cru"ci*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excruciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excruciating.]
Definition: To inflict agonizing pain upon; to torture; to torment greatly; to rack; as, to excruciate the heart or the body. Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate. Drayton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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