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.
LIBERTINISM
Etymology
Noun
libertinism (countable and uncountable, plural libertinisms)
A lifestyle or pattern of behavior characterized by self-indulgence and lack of restraint, especially one involving sexual promiscuity and rejection of religious or other moral authority.
Source: Wiktionary
Lib"er*tin*ism, n.
1. The state of a libertine or freedman. [R.] Hammond.
2. Licentious conduct; debauchery; lewdness.
3. Licentiousness of principle or opinion. That spirit of religion and seriousness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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