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.
BIOSCOPE
bioscope
(noun) a kind of early movie projector
bioscope
(noun) a South African movie theater
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bioscope (plural bioscopes)
An early form of movie projector
(South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, dated) A cinema or movie theatre.
Source: Wiktionary
Bi"o*scope, n. [Gr. bi`os life + -scope.]
1.
Definition: A view of life; that which gives such a view.
Bagman's Bioscope: Various Views of Men and Manners. [Book Title.] W. Bayley (1824).
2. An animated picture machine for screen projection; a cinematograph (which see).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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