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.
FOREORDAINED
foreordained, predestinate, predestined
(adjective) established or prearranged unalterably; “his place in history was foreordained”; “a sense of predestinate inevitability about it”; “it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
foreordained
simple past tense and past participle of foreordain
Source: Wiktionary
FOREORDAIN
Fore`or*dain", v. t.
Definition: To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ELLIPSE
(noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; “the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant”
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