Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, next to crude oil. It’s also one of the oldest commodities, with over 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed worldwide daily.
SPRIGHTED
Verb
sprighted
simple past tense and past participle of spright
Source: Wiktionary
SPRIGHT
Spright, n. Etym: [See Sprite.]
1. Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. [Obs.] "The high heroic spright." Spenser. Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser.
2. A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions of sprights. Spenser. To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright. Fairfax.
3. A kind of short arrow. [Obs.] Bacon.
Spright, v. t.
Definition: To haunt, as a spright. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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