There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
USURPATION
usurpation
(noun) wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority); “a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation”
trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation
(noun) entry to another’s property without right or permission
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
usurpation (countable and uncountable, plural usurpations)
The wrongful seizure of something by force, especially of sovereignty or other authority.
Trespass onto another's property without permission.
A taking or use without right.
Source: Wiktionary
U`sur*pa"tion, n. Etym: [L. usurpatio making use, usurpation: cf. F. usurpation.]
1. The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.
He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him. Sir T. More. A law [of a State] which is a usurpation upon the general government. O. Ellsworth. Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States. D. Webster.
Note: Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted.
2. Use; usage; custom. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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