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.
EXPIATION
expiation, atonement, propitiation
(noun) the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)
atonement, expiation, satisfaction
(noun) compensation for a wrong; “we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
expiation (countable and uncountable, plural expiations)
An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing.
Synonyms: atonement, propitiation
(obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off.
Synonyms: plunder, pillage
Source: Wiktionary
Ex`pi*a"tion, n. Etym: [L. expiatio: cf.F. expiation]
1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation. W. Irving.
2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. Milton.
3. An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. [Obs.] Hayward.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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