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.
IMAGINAL
Adjective
imaginal (not comparable)
Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image.
Of or relating to the insect imago.
Source: Wiktionary
Im*ag"i*nal, a. Etym: [L. imaginalis.]
1. Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks (Zoöl.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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