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.
SLUICELIKE
Etymology
Adjective
sluicelike (comparative more sluicelike, superlative most sluicelike)
Resembling a sluice or some aspect of one.
Source: Wiktionary
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RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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