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.
WAILFUL
lamenting, wailing, wailful
(adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; “lamenting sinners”; “wailing mourners”; “the wailing wind”; “wailful bagpipes”; “tangle her desires with wailful sonnets”- Shakespeare
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
wailful (comparative more wailful, superlative most wailful)
(chiefly poetic) Sorrowful; mournful.
You must lay Lime, to tangle her desires / By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes / Should be full fraught with seruiceable vowes.
Source: Wiktionary
Wail"ful, a.
Definition: Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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