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.
MELIORATION
amelioration, melioration, betterment
(noun) the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
melioration
(noun) the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning
improvement, melioration
(noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition; “the new school represents a great improvement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
melioration (countable and uncountable, plural meliorations)
Archaic form of amelioration.
Source: Wiktionary
Mel`io*ra"tion, n. Etym: [L. melioratio.]
Definition: The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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STIMULATIVE
(adjective) capable of arousing or accelerating physiological or psychological activity or response by a chemical agent
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