In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
APAGOGIC
Etymology
Adjective
apagogic (not comparable)
(rhetoric) Proving indirectly, by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.
Source: Wiktionary
Ap`a*gog"ic, Ap`a*gog"ic*al, a.
Definition: Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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GREAT
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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