retrocedent (comparative more retrocedent, superlative most retrocedent)
Tending to retrocede; moving backwards.
(medicine) Of gout, an attack in which surface symptoms such as joint inflammation disappear suddenly, and are replaced by affections of the internal organs.
Source: Wiktionary
Re`tro*ced"ent, a. Etym: [L. retrocedens, p. pr.]
Definition: Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 May 2025
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
