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.
LIXIVIATION
Noun
lixiviation (countable and uncountable, plural lixiviations)
The process of lixiviating.
Source: Wiktionary
Lix*iv`i*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. lixiviation.]
Definition: Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
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