extorsive (comparative more extorsive, superlative most extorsive)
Serving or tending to extort.
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*tor"sive, a. Etym: [See Extort.]
Definition: Serving or tending to extort. [R.] Johnson.
– Ex*tor"sive*ly, adv. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 May 2024
(noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; “the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
