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.
INHOLDING
Etymology
Noun
inholding (plural inholdings)
A piece of privately-owned land inside the boundary of a national park, national forest, state park, or similar publicly-owned protected area.
Usage notes
Note that the inholder can be another government agency. Per 43 CFR Subtitle A (10-1-09 Edition) p. 527: Inholding means State-owned or privately owned land, including subsurface rights of such owners underlying public lands or a valid mining claim or other valid occupancy that is within or is effectively surrounded by one or more areas.
Verb
inholding
present participle of inhold
Source: Wiktionary
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SENSE
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
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