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.
REATTEMPT
Etymology
Verb
reattempt (third-person singular simple present reattempts, present participle reattempting, simple past and past participle reattempted)
(transitive) To attempt again.
Noun
reattempt (plural reattempts)
Another attempt.
Anagrams
• attempter, trampette
Source: Wiktionary
Re`at*tempt", v. t.
Definition: To attempt again.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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EARTHSHAKING
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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