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.
APARTHEID
apartheid
(noun) a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites; the former official policy in South Africa
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
apartheid (countable and uncountable, plural apartheids)
(South Africa, historical) The policy of racial separation used by South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
(by extension) Any similar policy of racial separation/segregation and discrimination.
(by extension) A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
Verb
apartheid (third-person singular simple present apartheids, present participle apartheiding, simple past and past participle apartheided)
To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
Antonyms
• antiapartheid
Anagrams
• hit parade
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole
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