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.
PRESTATION
Etymology
Noun
prestation
(UK, legal, obsolete) A payment of money; a toll or duty.
(UK, legal, obsolete) The rendering of a service.
Anagrams
• patronites, reptations, tritanopes
Source: Wiktionary
Pres*ta"tion, n. Etym: [L. praestatio a performing, paying, fr. praestare: cf. F. prestation.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A payment of money; a toll or duty; also, the rendering of a service. Burrill.
Prestation money, a sum of money paid yearly by archdeacons and other dignitaries to their bishop.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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