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.
FONTS
Noun
fonts
plural of font
Verb
fonts
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of font
Source: Wiktionary
FONT
Font, n. Etym: [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.)
Definition: A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.
Font, n. Etym: [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]
1. A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.
2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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