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.
VEGETATED
Verb
vegetated
simple past tense and past participle of vegetate
Adjective
vegetated (comparative more vegetated, superlative most vegetated)
On which vegetation is growing.
a vegetated streambank
Source: Wiktionary
VEGETATE
Veg"e*tate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vegetated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vegetating.] Etym: [L. vegetatus, p. p. of vegetare to enliven. See Vegetable.]
1. To grow, as plants, by nutriment imbibed by means of roots and leaves; to start into growth; to sprout; to germinate. See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again. Pope.
2. Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow. Cowper. Persons who . . . would have vegetated stupidly in the places where fortune had fixed them. Jeffrey.
3. (Med.)
Definition: To grow exuberantly; to produce fleshy or warty outgrowths; as, a vegetating papule.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISPERSION
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