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.
TRANSMISSIBLE
catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable
(adjective) (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible
(adjective) inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; “ancestral home”; “ancestral lore”; “hereditary monarchy”; “patrimonial estate”; “transmissible tradition”
familial, genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible
(adjective) occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; “an inherited disease”; “familial traits”; “genetically transmitted features”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
transmissible (not comparable)
Able to be transmitted.
(medicine) Capable of being transmitted from one person to another; contagious.
Source: Wiktionary
Trans*mis"si*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. transmissible.]
Definition: Capable of being transmitted from one to another; capable of being passed through any body or substance.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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