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.
RUBRICATE
rubricate
(verb) sign with a mark instead of a name
miniate, rubricate
(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red; “In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated”
rubricate
(verb) furnish with rubrics or regulate by rubrics; “the manuscript is not rubricated”
rubricate
(verb) place in the church calendar as a red-letter day honoring a saint; “She was rubricated by the pope”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rubricate (comparative more rubricate, superlative most rubricate)
(obsolete) Marked with red.
Verb
rubricate (third-person singular simple present rubricates, present participle rubricating, simple past and past participle rubricated)
(transitive) To write in the form of a rubric.
To create rubrication; to illuminate a manuscript with red letters.
Anagrams
• bicrurate
Source: Wiktionary
Ru"bri*cate, a. Etym: [L. rubricatus p.p. of rubricare to color red. See Rubric, n.]
Definition: Marked with red. Sp
Ru"bri*cate, v. t.
Definition: To mark or distinguished with red; to arrange as in a rubric; to establish in a settled and unchangeable form. Foxe. A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. Hare.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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