parrotry (usually uncountable, plural parrotries)
Thoughtless imitation or repetition of someone else's words or sayings; mindless repetition. [from 18th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Par"rot*ry, n.
Definition: Servile imitation or repetition. [R.] Coleridge. "The supine parrotry." Fitzed. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 November 2024
(adverb) in a searching manner; “‘Are you really happy with him,’ asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly”
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.
