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.
INEXPEDIENCIES
Noun
inexpediencies
plural of inexpediency
Source: Wiktionary
INEXPEDIENCY
In`ex*pe"di*ence, In`ex*pe"di*en*cy, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures. It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. Paley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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