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.
LITERATORS
Noun
literators
plural of literator
Source: Wiktionary
LITERATOR
Lit"er*a`tor, n. Etym: [L. litterator, literator. See Letter.]
1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.
2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.
3. A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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