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.
GIMBALLING
Verb
gimballing
present participle of gimbal
Source: Wiktionary
GIMBAL
Gim"bal, or; Gim"bals (, n. Etym: [See Gimmal, n.]
Definition: A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first. Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal joint embodying the principle of the gimbal.
– Gimbal ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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