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.
STEEMS
Noun
steems
plural of steem
Anagrams
• Tesems, messet, seem'st, stemes, temses, tmeses
Source: Wiktionary
STEEM
Steem, n. & v.
Definition: See Esteem. [Obs.] Spenser.
Steem, n. & v.
Definition: See 1st and 2nd Stem. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Stem, Steem, v. i.
Definition: To gleam. [Obs.] His head bald, that shone as any glass, . . . [And] stemed as a furnace of a leed [caldron]. Chaucer.
Stem, Steem, n.
Definition: A gleam of light; flame. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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