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.
LARUM
Noun
larum (plural larums)
Obsolete form of alarum.
Verb
larum (third-person singular simple present larums, present participle laruming, simple past and past participle larumed)
Obsolete form of alarum.
Anagrams
• mural, rumal
Source: Wiktionary
Lar"um
Definition: , See Alarum, and Alarm.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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