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.
CHEDER
Etymology
Noun
cheder (plural cheders or chederim or chedarim or chadarim or chadorim)
An elementary school for Jewish children, teaching basic Judaism and Hebrew.
Anagrams
• cheer'd, reched
Source: Wiktionary
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THEORETICAL
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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