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.
ALF
Proper noun
ALF
Initialism of Animal Liberation Front (name used by animal rights activists engaging in direct action).
Initialism of automatic letter facing: mechanical postal system introduced in the UK in 1957 to align the stamps to the correct position for the franking machine.
Initialism of assisted living facility.
Acronym of Alien Life Form (a TV series)
Anagrams
• AFL, FAL, FLA, Fal, Fla, Fla., LFA
Proper noun
Alf
A diminutive of the male given names Alfred, Alfonso from Germanic languages.
Anagrams
• AFL, FAL, FLA, Fal, Fla, Fla., LFA
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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