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.
SUPERVENE
supervene
(verb) take place as an additional or unexpected development
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
supervene (third-person singular simple present supervenes, present participle supervening, simple past and past participle supervened)
(intransitive) To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.
To supersede.
To be dependent on an earlier event.
(philosophy) To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.
Source: Wiktionary
Su`per*vene", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Supervened; p. pr. & vb. n. Supervening.] Etym: [L. supervenire, superventum, to come over, to come upon; super over + venire to come. See Super-, and Come, and cf. Overcome.]
Definition: To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen. Such a mutual gravitation can never supervene to matter unless impressed by divine power. Bentley. A tyrany immediately supervened. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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