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.
INTEGRITY
integrity
(noun) moral soundness; “he expects to find in us the common honesty and integrity of men of business”; “they admired his scrupulous professional integrity”
integrity, unity, wholeness
(noun) an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting; “the integrity of the nervous system is required for normal development”; “he took measures to insure the territorial unity of Croatia”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
integrity (countable and uncountable, plural integrities)
Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
The state of being wholesome; unimpaired
The quality or condition of being complete; pure
(cryptography) With regards to data encryption, ensuring that information is not altered by unauthorized persons in a way that is not detectable by authorized users.
(aviation) The ability of a system to provide timely warnings to users when they should not be used for navigation.
Synonyms
• decency
• goodness
• honesty
• probity
• purity
• rectitude
• sincerity
• unity
• uprightness
• virtue
• wholeness
Source: Wiktionary
In*teg"ri*ty, n. Etym: [L. integritas: cf. F. intégrité. See Integer, and cf. Entirety.]
1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More.
2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude. The moral grandeur of independent integrity is the sublimest thing in nature. Buckminster. Their sober zeal, integrity. and worth. Cowper.
3. Unimpaired, unadulterated, or genuine state; entire correspondence with an original condition; purity. Language continued long in its purity and integrity. Sir M. Hale.
Syn.
– Honesty; uprightness; rectitude. See Probity.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FUNERAL
(noun) a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; “hundreds of people attended his funeral”
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