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.
HERMITIC
anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical
(adjective) characterized by ascetic solitude; “the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony”; “his hermitic existence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
hermitic (comparative more hermitic, superlative most hermitic)
Of, pertaining to, or typical of a hermit
Source: Wiktionary
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