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.
PLENARIES
Noun
plenaries
plural of plenary
Source: Wiktionary
PLENARY
Ple"na*ry, a. Etym: [LL. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See Plenty.]
Definition: Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority. A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins.
– Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.
Ple"na*ry, n. (Law)
Definition: Decisive procedure. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TERNARY
(adjective) having three units or components or elements; “a ternary operation”; “a treble row of red beads”; “overcrowding made triple sessions necessary”; “triple time has three beats per measure”; “triplex windows”
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