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.
PROCEEDS
return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff
(noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; “the average return was about 5%”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
proceeds pl (plural only)
Revenue; gross revenue.
Profits; net revenue.
Verb
proceeds
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of proceed
Anagrams
• precodes, rescoped
Source: Wiktionary
Pro"ceeds, n. pl.
Definition: That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
PROCEED
Pro*ceed" v. i. [imp. & p. p. Proceeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Proceeding.] Etym: [F. procéder. fr. L. procedere, processum, to go before, to proceed; pro forward + cedere to move. See Cede.]
1. To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey. If thou proceed in this thy insolence. Shak.
2. To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
3. To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. Shak.
4. To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design. He that proceeds upon other principles in his inquiry. Locke.
5. To be transacted; to take place; to occur. [Obs.] He will, after his sour fashion, tell you What hath proceeded worthy note to-day. Shak.
6. To have application or effect; to operate. This rule only proceeds and takes place when a person can not of common law condemn another by his sentence. Ayliffe.
7. (Law)
Definition: To begin and carry on a legal process.
Syn.
– To advance; go on; continue; progress; issue; arise; emanate.
Pro"ceed n.
Definition: See Proceeds. [Obs.] Howell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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