Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
VEHEMENCY
Etymology
Noun
vehemency (countable and uncountable, plural vehemencies)
(archaic) Vehemence.
Preachers know that the emotion which surpriseth them whilst they are in their earnest speech doth animate them towards belief, and that being angrie we more violently give our selves to defend our proposition, emprint it in our selves, and embrace the same with more vehemencie and approbation than we did being in our temperate and reposed sense.
Source: Wiktionary
Ve"he*men*cy, n.
Definition: Vehemence. [R.] The vehemency of your affection. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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