Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
ostracized
simple past tense and past participle of ostracize
ostracized (comparative more ostracized, superlative most ostracized)
Blackballed.
Banished by ostracism.
• Socratized, socratized
Source: Wiktionary
Os"tra*cize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ostracized; p. pr. & vb. n. Ostracizing.] Etym: [Gr. Osseous, Oyster.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.)
Definition: To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.
2. To banish from society; to put under the ban; to cast out from social, political, or private favor; as, he was ostracized by his former friends. Marvell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.