Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
ACADEMICISM
scholasticism, academicism, academism
(noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
academicism (countable and uncountable, plural academicisms)
(classical studies, sometimes, capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
(art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
Etymology
Noun
Academicism (plural Academicisms)
(classical studies, sometimes, capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic. [First attested in the early 17th century.]
Source: Wiktionary
Ac`a*dem"i*cism, n.
1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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