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.
GNOSTICISM
Gnosticism
(noun) a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person’s spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
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Noun
gnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural gnosticisms)
Alternative form of Gnosticism
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Etymology
Noun
Gnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural Gnosticisms)
A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.
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Gnos"ti*cism, n.
Definition: The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INITIALISM
(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”
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