Coffee has initially been a food ā chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
ILLATIVE
illative
(adjective) expressing or preceding an inference; āāthereforeā is an illative wordā
illative, inferential
(adjective) resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference; āan illative conclusionā; āinferential reasoningā
inferential, illative
(adjective) relating to or having the nature of illation or inference; āthe illative faculty of the mindā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
illative (not comparable)
of, or relating to an illation
(grammar) of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something
Noun
illative (plural illatives)
(grammar) a word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore)
an illation
(grammar) the illative case, or a word in that case
Anagrams
• veiltail
Source: Wiktionary
Il"la*tive, a. Etym: [L. illativus: cf. F. illatif.]
Definition: Relating to, dependent on, or denoting, illation; inferential; conclusive; as, an illative consequence or proposition; an illative word, as then, therefore, etc. Illative conversion (Logic), a converse or reverse statement of a proposition which in that form must be true because the original proposition is true.
– Illative sense (Metaph.), the faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the conditions and determines upon the correctness of inferences.
Il"la*tive, n.
Definition: An illative particle, as for, because.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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COVERT
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; ācovert actions by the CIAā; ācovert funding for the rebelsā
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