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.
LEVANTED
Verb
levanted
simple past tense and past participle of levant
Source: Wiktionary
LEVANT
Le"vant, a. Etym: [F., p. pr. of lever to raise.] (Law)
Definition: Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle. See Couchant and levant, under Couchant.
Le*vant", n. Etym: [It. levante the point where the sum rises, the east, the Levant, fr.levare to raise, levarsi to rise: cf. F. levant. See Lever.]
1. The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
2. A levanter (the wind so called).
Le"vant, a.
Definition: Eastern. [Obs.] Forth rush the levant and the ponent winds. Milton.
Le*vant", v. i. Etym: [Cf. Sp. levantar to raise, go from one place to another.]
Definition: To run away from one's debts; to decamp. [Colloq. Eng.] Thackeray.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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