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.
FORBODE
Etymology 1
Noun
forbode (plural forbodes)
(archaic) A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
Etymology 2
Verb
forbode
obsolete simple past of forbid.
Etymology 3
Verb
forbode (third-person singular simple present forbodes, present participle forboding, simple past and past participle forboded)
Alternative form of forebode
Source: Wiktionary
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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