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.
IMPOTENCY
powerlessness, impotence, impotency
(noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
impotence, impotency
(noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
impotency (usually uncountable, plural impotencies)
(dated) impotence
Source: Wiktionary
Im"po*tence, Im"po*ten*cy, n. Etym: [L. impotenia inability, poverty, want of moderation. See Impotent.]
1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.
2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] Milton.
3. (Law & Med.)
Definition: Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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