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.
REMISSION
absolution, remission, remittal, remission of sin
(noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
remission, remitment, remit
(noun) (law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
remission, remittal, subsidence
(noun) an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); “his cancer is in remission”
remittance, remittal, remission, remitment
(noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
remission (countable and uncountable, plural remissions)
A pardon of a sin; (chiefly, historical, also, figuratively) the forgiveness of an offence, or relinquishment of a (legal) claim or a debt.
Synonym: acceptilation
Antonym: irremission
A lessening of amount due, as in either money or work, or intensity of a thing.
(law) A reduction or cancellation of the penalty for a criminal offence; in particular, the reduction of a prison sentence as a recognition of the prisoner's good behaviour.
Synonym: remitment
(medicine) An abatement or lessening of the manifestations of a disease; a period where the symptoms of a disease are absent.
Synonyms: anesis, remittence
An act of remitting, returning, or sending back.
(law) A referral of a case back to another (especially a lower or inferior) court of law; a remand, a remittal.
Usage notes
Not to be confused with reemission.
Anagrams
• minorises, missioner, oneirisms
Source: Wiktionary
Pardon,
Syn: remission.
Definition: -- Forgiveness, Pardon. Forgiveness is Anglo-Saxon, and pardon Norman French, both implying a giving back. The word pardon, being early used in our Bible, has, in religious matters, the same sense as forgiveness; but in the language of common life there is a difference between them, such as we often find between corresponding Anglo-Saxon and Norman words. Forgive points to inward feeling, and suppose alienated affection; when we ask forgiveness, we primarily seek the removal of anger. Pardon looks more to outward things or consequences, and is often applied to trifling matters, as when we beg pardon for interrupting a man, or for jostling him in a crowd. The civil magistrate also grants a pardon, and not forgiveness. The two words are, therefore, very clearly distinguished from each other in most cases which relate to the common concerns of life.
Re*mis"sion (r-msh"n), n. Etym: [F. rémission, L. remissio. See Remit.]
1. The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up.
2. Discharge from that which is due; relinquishment of a claim, right, or obligation; pardon of transgression; release from forfeiture, penalty, debt, etc. This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matt. xxvi. 28. That ples, therefore, . . . Will gain thee no remission. Milton.
3. Diminution of intensity; abatement; relaxation.
4. (Med.)
Definition: A temporary and incomplete subsidence of the force or violence of a disease or of pain, as destinguished from intermission, in which the disease completely leaves the patient for a time; abatement.
5. The act of sending back. [R.] Stackhouse.
6. Act of sending in payment, as money; remittance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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