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.
PRESCIOUS
Etymology
Adjective
prescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)
(obsolete) foreknowing; prescient
Source: Wiktionary
Pre"scious (pre"shus), a. [L. praescius; prae before + scius knowing, fr. scire to know.]
Definition: Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills. [R.] Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
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