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.
INFECUND
Etymology
Adjective
infecund (not comparable)
infertile
unable or unwilling to produce children
Source: Wiktionary
In*fec"und, a. Etym: [L. infecundus: cf. F. infécond. See In- not, and Fecund.]
Definition: Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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