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.
VOLVE
Etymology
Verb
volve (third-person singular simple present volves, present participle volving, simple past and past participle volved)
(transitive, obsolete) To turn over in the mind; to ponder.
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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