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.
HANDICAPPER
handicapper, odds-maker
(noun) someone who sets the betting odds based on calculations of the outcome of a contest (especially a horse race)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
handicapper (plural handicappers)
One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
(North America) A disabled person.
A horse entered in a handicap race.
Source: Wiktionary
Hand"i*cap`per, n.
Definition: One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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