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.
INSTANTIATE
instantiate
(verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word); “The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect”
instantiate
(verb) represent by an instance; “This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
instantiate (third-person singular simple present instantiates, present participle instantiating, simple past and past participle instantiated)
(transitive) To represent (something) by a concrete instance. [from 20th c.]
(transitive, object-oriented programming) To create an object (an instance) of a specific class. [from 20th c.]
Synonyms
• (represent by a concrete instance): exemplify
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
Coffee Trivia
