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.
UGLIED
Verb
uglied
simple past tense and past participle of ugly
Anagrams
• Gudiel, guiled
Source: Wiktionary
UGLY
Ug"ly, a. [Compar. Uglier; superl. Ugliest.] Etym: [Icel. uggligr fearful, dreadful; uggr fear (akin to ugga to fear) + -ligr (akin to E. -ly, like). Awe.]
1. Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.
2. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly. [Colloq. U. S.]
3. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer. [Colloq.]
Ug"ly, n.
Definition: A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet. [Colloq. Eng.] C. Kingsley.
Ug"ly, v. t.
Definition: To make ugly. [R.] Richardson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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