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.
ADVISEMENT
deliberation, weighing, advisement
(noun) careful consideration; “a little deliberation would have deterred them”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
advisement (usually uncountable, plural advisements)
(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
(archaic) Advice, counsel.
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*vise"ment, n. Etym: [OE. avisement, F. avisement, fr. aviser. See Advise, and cf. Avisement.]
1. Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.
2. Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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