Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
PETITORY
Etymology
Adjective
petitory (comparative more petitory, superlative most petitory)
petitioning, soliciting, begging, petitionary
Source: Wiktionary
Pet"i*to*ry, a. Etym: [L. petitorius, fr. petere, petitum, to beg, ask: cf. F. pétitore.]
Definition: Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating. Sir W. Hamilton. Petitory suit or action (Admiralty Law), a suit in which the mere title to property is litigated and sought to be enforced, as distinguished from a possessory suit; also (Scots Law), a suit wherein the plaintiff claims something as due him by the defendant. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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