OPHIOLATRY

ophiolatry, serpent-worship

(noun) the worship of snakes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

ophiolatry (uncountable)

snake worship

Source: Wiktionary


O`phi*ol"a*try, n. Etym: [Gr.

Definition: The worship of serpents.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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