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.
SEMINARIES
Noun
seminaries
plural of seminary
Anagrams
• Messierian, Namierises, namierises, semainiers, siramesine
Source: Wiktionary
SEMINARY
Sem"i*na*ry, n.; pl. Seminaries. Etym: [L. seminarium, fr. seminarius belonging to seed, fr. semon, seminis, seed. See Seminal.]
1. A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat. [Obs.] Mortimer. But if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.
2. Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.
3. A place of education, as a scool of a high grade, an academy, college, or university.
4. Seminal state. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
5. Fig.: A seed bed; a source. [Obs.] Harvey.
6. A Roman Catholic priest educated in a foreign seminary; a seminarist. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Sem"i*na*ry, a. Etym: [L. seminarius.]
Definition: Belonging to seed; seminal. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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