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.
REVIVING
renewing, restorative, reviving, revitalizing, revitalising
(adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to; “the renewing warmth of the sunshine”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
reviving
present participle of revive
Noun
reviving (plural revivings)
A revival; a bringing back to life.
I believe I may venture to say that I am not [mistaken] that where the divine life is implanted by the Spirit of the living God, that life admits of decrease and increase, admits of dreadful decays, and also of some blessed revivings.
Source: Wiktionary
Re*viv"ing, a. & n.
Definition: Returning or restoring to life or vigor; reanimating. Milton.
– Re*viv"ing*ly, adv.
REVIVE
Re*vive", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Revived; p. pr. & vb. n. Reviving.] Etym: [F. revivere, L. revivere; pref. re- re- + vivere to live. See Vivid.]
1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.
2. Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression; as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century.
3. (Old Chem.)
Definition: To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal.
Re*vive", v. t. Etym: [Cf. F. reviver. See Revive, v. i.]
1. To restore, or bring again to life; to reanimate. Those bodies, by reason of whose mortality we died, shall be revived. Bp. Pearson.
2. To raise from coma,, languor, depression, or discouragement; to bring into action after a suspension. Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts. Shak. Your coming, friends, revives me. Milton.
3. Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning.
4. To renew in the mind or memory; to bring to recollection; to recall attention to; to reawaken. "Revive the libels born to die." Swift. The mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had. Locke.
5. (Old Chem.)
Definition: To restore or reduce to its natural or metallic state; as, to revive a metal after calcination.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GRIP
(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding; “a good grip on French history”; “they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities”; “he was in the grip of a powerful emotion”; “a terrible power had her in its grasp”
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