Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
PREORDINATION
predestination, foreordination, preordination, predetermination
(noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
preordination (usually uncountable, plural preordinations)
The state or process of things being preordained.
Adjective
preordination (not comparable)
Before ordination.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*or`di*na"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. préordination.]
Definition: The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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