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.
EXPEDIENTS
Noun
expedients
plural of expedient
Source: Wiktionary
EXPEDIENT
Ex*pe"di*ent a. Etym: [L. expediens, -entis, p. pr. of expedire to be expedient, release, extricate: cf. F. expédient. See Expedite.]
1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately.
2. Quick; expeditious. [Obs.] His marches are expedient to this town. Shak.
Ex*pe"di*ent, n.
1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to accomplish an end. What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm her fears and ease her boding mind Philips.
2. Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Syn.
– Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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