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.
SORBITE
Etymology
Noun
sorbite (countable and uncountable, plural sorbites)
(obsolete) Pearlite.
Anagrams
• broties, obiters, rose bit, torbies
Source: Wiktionary
Sor"bite, n. Etym: [L. sorbus service tree.] (Chem.)
Definition: A sugarlike substance, isomeric with mannite and dulcite, found with sorbin in the ripe berries of the sorb, and extracted as a sirup or a white crystalline substance.
– Sor*bit"ic, a.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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NEGLECT
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
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