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.
INTERLINED
Verb
interlined
simple past tense and past participle of interline
Source: Wiktionary
INTERLINE
In`ter*line", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interlined; p. pr. & vb. n. Interlining.] Etym: [Pref. inter- + line: cf. LL. interlineare, F. interlinéer, OF. entreligner.]
1. To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for correction or addition; to write or print something between the lines of; as, to interline a page or a book. Swift.
2. To arrange in alternate lines; as, to interline Latin and English. Locke.
3. To mark or imprint with lines. A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow. Marlowe.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SYNCRETISM
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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