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.
SCOURSE
Verb
scourse (third-person singular simple present scourses, present participle scoursing, simple past and past participle scoursed)
Obsolete form of scorse.
Anagrams
• Cousers, Croesus, Crouses, CrÅ“sus, Scouser, courses, rescous, scouser, sources, sucrose
Source: Wiktionary
Scourse, v. t.
Definition: See Scorse. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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