Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
IMMOLATE
immolate
(verb) offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; “The Aztecs immolated human victims”; “immolate the valuables at the temple”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
immolate (third-person singular simple present immolates, present participle immolating, simple past and past participle immolated)
To kill as a sacrifice.
To destroy, especially by fire.
Anagrams
• ammolite
Source: Wiktionary
Im"mo*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating.] Etym: [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.]
Definition: To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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