Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
REGNANCY
Noun
regnancy (countable and uncountable, plural regnancies)
The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.
The third and last cause, and especially operative in the writings of this author, is the presence and regnancy of a false and fantastic philosophy, yet shot through with refracted light from the not risen but rising truth […]
Source: Wiktionary
Reg"nan*cy (-nan*s), n.
Definition: The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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AMISS
(adverb) in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; “if you think him guilty you judge amiss”; “he spoke amiss”; “no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly”
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