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.
INDIGENCES
Noun
indigences
plural of indigence
Source: Wiktionary
INDIGENCE
In"di*gence, n. Etym: [L. indigentia: cf. F. indigence. See Indigent.]
Definition: The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence. Cowper.
Syn.
– Poverty; penury; destitution; want; need; privation; lack. See Poverty.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(verb) cause the failure or ruin of; “His peccadilloes finally broke his marriage”; “This play will either make or break the playwright”
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