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.
GERMANIZED
Verb
Germanized
simple past tense and past participle of Germanize
Source: Wiktionary
GERMANIZE
Ger"man*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Germanized; p. pr. & vb. n. Germanizing.]
Definition: To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
Ger"man*ize, v. i.
Definition: To reason or write after the manner of the Germans.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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