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.
BALDMONEY
Etymology
Noun
baldmoney (uncountable)
Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
(obsolete) Gentianeae tribe plant, gentian or felwort
Synonyms
• (Meum athamanticum): spignel, spicknel, spiknel, spikenel; meon, meu, meum; bearwort, bear-wort, bear's wort
Anagrams
• molybdena
Source: Wiktionary
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PUNGENCY
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
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