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.
ASPIS
Etymology
Noun
aspis (plural aspides)
A type of round shield borne by ancient Greek soldiers
(archaic) An asp or generic venomous snake
(palynology) A prominent ring of thickened exine around a pore on a pollen grain
Coordinate terms
• (type of shield): hoplon
• (ring of exine): annulus
Anagrams
• AISPs, IASPs, apsis
Source: Wiktionary
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