Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
INDITE
write, compose, pen, indite
(verb) produce a literary work; “She composed a poem”; “He wrote four novels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
indite (third-person singular simple present indites, present participle inditing, simple past and past participle indited)
(transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
(transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
To dictate; to prompt.
(obsolete) To invite or ask.
(obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
Etymology 2
Noun
indite (uncountable)
(mineral) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.
Anagrams
• dinite, inited, tied in, tineid
Source: Wiktionary
In*dite", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inditing.] Etym: [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse, fr. L. indicere to proclaim, announce; pref. in- in + dicere to say. The word was influenced also by L. indicare to indicate, and by dictare to dictate. See Diction, and cf. Indict, Indicate, Dictate.]
1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt. My heart is inditing a good matter. Ps. xlv. 1. Could a common grief have indited such expressions South. Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites. Pope.
2. To invite or ask. [Obs.] She will indite him so supper. Shak.
3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] Spenser.
In*dite", v. i.
Definition: To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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