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.
OVERLIVES
Verb
overlives
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overlive
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OVERLIVE
O`ver*live", v. t.
Definition: To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.
O`ver*live", v. i.
Definition: To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TRUNCATION
(noun) the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces)
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