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.
MESNES
Noun
mesnes
plural of mesne
Anagrams
• meness, menses
Source: Wiktionary
MESNE
Mesne, a. Etym: [Cf. Mean intermediate.] (Law)
Definition: Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord. Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between the beginning and end of a suit, sometimes understood to be the whole process preceding the execution. Blackstone. Burrill.
– Mesne profits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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