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.
CENSORSHIP
censoring, censorship
(noun) deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances
censoring, censorship, security review
(noun) counterintelligence achieved by banning or deleting any information of value to the enemy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
censorship (countable and uncountable, plural censorships)
The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression or press, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
(historical) The role of the censor (magistrate) in Ancient Rome.
Anagrams
• sensorchip, sphericons
Source: Wiktionary
Cen"sor*ship, n.
Definition: The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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