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.
OMITTED
OMIT
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out
(verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted; “The bad results were excluded from the report”; “Leave off the top piece”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
omitted
simple past tense and past participle of omit
Source: Wiktionary
OMIT
O*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Omitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Omitting.] Etym: [L. omittere, omissum; ob (see Ob- + mittere to cause to go, let go, send. See Mission.]
1. To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop. These personal comparisons I omit. Bacon.
2. To pass by; to forbear or fail to perform or to make use of; to leave undone; to neglect. Her father omitted nothing in her education that might make her the most accomplished woman of her age. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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