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.
SAGACITY
judiciousness, sagacity, sagaciousness
(noun) the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating
sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
(noun) the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sagacity (usually uncountable, plural sagacities)
(obsolete) Keen sense of smell.
The quality of being sage, wise, or able to make good decisions; the quality of being perceptive, astute or insightful.
Synonyms: sagaciousness, wisdom
Source: Wiktionary
Sa*gac"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. sagacitas. See Sagacious.]
Definition: The quality of being sagacious; quickness or acuteness of sense perceptions; keenness of discernment or penetration with soundness of judgment; shrewdness. Some [brutes] show that nice sagacity of smell. Cowper. Natural sagacity improved by generous education. V. Knox.
Syn.
– Penetration; shrewdness; judiciousness.
– Sagacity, Penetration. Penetration enables us to enter into the depths of an abstruse subject, to detect motives, plans, etc. Sagacity adds to penetration a keen, practical judgment, which enables one to guard against the designs of others, and to turn everything to the best possible advantage.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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