In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
LUBRICITY
prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity
(noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lubricity (countable and uncountable, plural lubricities)
Slipperiness, oiliness.
Evasiveness, shiftiness.
Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness
Synonyms: lechery, wantonness
Source: Wiktionary
Lu*bric"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. lubricitas: cf. F. lubricité.]
1. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil. Ray.
2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune. L'Estrange.
3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency. Sir T. Herbert. As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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