SUBAUDITION

Etymology

Noun

subaudition (plural subauditions)

The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed.

That which is understood or supplied from that which is expressed.

Source: Wiktionary


Sub`au*di"tion, n. Etym: [L. subauditio.]

Definition: The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied. Trench.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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