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.
UPGAZE
Etymology
Noun
upgaze (plural upgazes)
(medical) The act of looking upward.
Verb
upgaze (third-person singular simple present upgazes, present participle upgazing, simple past and past participle upgazed)
(obsolete, intransitive) To gaze upward.
Source: Wiktionary
Up*gaze", v. i.
Definition: To gaze upward. Byron.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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