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.
ANTIPERIODIC
Etymology
Adjective
antiperiodic (not comparable)
(medicine) preventing the regular recurrence of symptoms
(mathematics) Exhibiting antiperiodicity.
Noun
antiperiodic (plural antiperiodics)
(medicine) A drug that prevents the regular recurrence of symptoms.
Source: Wiktionary
An`ti*pe`ri*od"ic, n. (Med.)
Definition: A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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