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.
MINGLING
mingling
(noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact; “all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
mingling
present participle of mingle
Noun
mingling (plural minglings)
A mixture; a blending.
Source: Wiktionary
MINGLE
Min"gle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling.] Etym: [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.]
1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound. There was... fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24.
2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2.
3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.
4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] Shak.
5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.
Min"gle, v. i.
Definition: To become mixed or blended.
Min"gle, n.
Definition: A mixture. [Obs.] Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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