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.
SUBOCTUPLE
Etymology
Adjective
suboctuple (not comparable)
(obsolete) Containing one part of eight; in the ratio of one to eight.
As one of these under pulleys abates half of that heaviness of the weight, and causes the power to be in a subduple proportion; so two of them abate half of that which remains, and cause a subquadruple proportion, three a sextuple, four a suboctuple.
Source: Wiktionary
Sub*oc"tave, Sub*oc"tu*ple, a.
Definition: Containing one part of eight; having the ratio of one to eight. Bp. Wilkins.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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