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.
ADVENTITIOUS
adventitious
(adjective) associated by chance and not an integral part; “poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form”- Frederick W. Robertson; “they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
adventitious (comparative more adventitious, superlative most adventitious)
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
Synonyms
• (from an external source): extrinsic
• (accidental, additional): accidental, spontaneous, sporadic; see also accidental
• (not congenital): acquired
Source: Wiktionary
Ad`ven*ti"tious, a. Etym: [L. adventitius.]
1. Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign. To things of great dimensions, if we annex an adventitious idea of terror, they become without comparison greater. Burke.
2. (Nat. Hist.)
Definition: Out of the proper or usual place; as, adventitious buds or roots.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.
4. (Med.)
Definition: Acquired, as diseases; accidental.
– Ad`ven*ti"tious*ly, adv.
– Ad`ven*ti"tious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HABIT
(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition; “owls have nocturnal habits”; “she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair”; “long use had hardened him to it”
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