placebo
(noun) (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead
placebo
(noun) an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
Source: WordNet® 3.1
placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)
(medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. [from 18th c.]
(Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead. [from 13th c.]
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Source: Wiktionary
Pla*ce"bo, n. Etym: [L., I shall please, fut. of placere to please.]
1. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead.
2. (Med.)
Definition: A prescription intended to humor or satisfy. To sing placebo, to agree with one in his opinion; to be complaisant to. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 June 2025
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
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.
