Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
SUCCUSSATION
Etymology
Noun
succussation (countable and uncountable, plural succussations)
(obsolete) Violent shaking or jolting.
(obsolete) A trot or trotting.
Source: Wiktionary
Suc`cus*sa"tion, n. Etym: [L. succussare to jolt, v. intens. fr. succutere, succussum, to fling up from below, to toss up; sub under + quatere to shake.]
1. A trot or trotting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
2. A shaking; succussion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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