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.
INTENSIONS
Noun
intensions
plural of intension
Source: Wiktionary
INTENSION
In*ten"sion, n. Etym: [L. intensio: cf. F. intension. See Intend, and cf. Intention.]
1. A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.
2. Increase of power or energy of any quality or thing; intenseness; fervency. Jer. Taylor. Sounds . . . likewise do rise and fall with the intension or remission of the wind. Bacon.
3. (Logic & Metaph.)
Definition: The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
28 November 2024
SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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