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.
CLEAVAGES
Noun
cleavages
plural of cleavage
Anagrams
• esclavage
Source: Wiktionary
CLEAVAGE
Cleav"age, n.
1. The act of cleaving or splitting.
2. (Crystallog.)
Definition: The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
3. (Geol.)
Definition: Division into laminæ, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually produced by pressure. Basal cleavage, cleavage parallel to the base of a crystal, or to the plane of the lateral axes.
– Cell cleavage (Biol.), multiplication of cells by fission. See Segmentation.
– Cubuc cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of a cube.
– Diagonal cleavage, cleavage parallel to ta diagonal plane.
– Egg clavage. (Biol.) See Segmentation.
– Lateral cleavage, cleavage parallel to the lateral planes.
– Octahedral, Dodecahedral, or Rhombohedral, cleavage, cleavage parallel to the faces of an octahedron, dodecahedron, or rhombohedron.
– Prismatic cleavage, cleavage parallel to a vertical prism.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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