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.
ANTIVIOLENCE
Etymology
Adjective
antiviolence (not comparable)
(law enforcement, sociology) Acting against or opposing violence.
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HEMLOCK
(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; “Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock”
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