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.
ATACTIC
ataxic, atactic
(adjective) lacking motor coordination; marked or caused by ataxia
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Adjective
atactic (comparative more atactic, superlative most atactic)
(medicine) Of or pertaining to ataxia.
(chemistry) Describing any regular polymer or other macromolecule in which the orientation of the subunits is random.
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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