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.
QUITRENT
Etymology
Noun
quitrent (plural quitrents)
A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.
Source: Wiktionary
Quit"rent`, n. Etym: [Quit, a. + rent] (Law)
Definition: A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.
Note: In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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