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.
IMMUREMENT
captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
(noun) the state of being imprisoned; “he was held in captivity until he died”; “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”; “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”; “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
immurement (countable and uncountable, plural immurements)
Capital punishment by entombing for life.
Source: Wiktionary
Im*mure"ment, n.
Definition: The act iif immuring, or the state of being immured; imprsonment.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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25 December 2024
UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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