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.
NULLING
Verb
nulling
present participle of null
Noun
nulling (countable and uncountable, plural nullings)
nulled work
Source: Wiktionary
NULL
Null, a. Etym: [L. nullus not any, none; ne not + ullus any, a dim. of unus one; cf. F. nul. See No, and One, and cf. None.]
Definition: Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.
Null, n.
1. Something that has no force or meaning.
2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.
Null, v. t. Etym: [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.]
Definition: To annul. [Obs.] Milton.
Null, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: One of the beads in nulled work.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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