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.
CLOTURE
closure, cloture, gag rule, gag law
(noun) a rule for limiting or ending debate in a deliberative body
closure, cloture
(verb) terminate debate by calling for a vote; “debate was closured”; “cloture the discussion”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cloture (countable and uncountable, plural clotures)
(law, politics, chiefly, US) In legislative assemblies that permit unlimited debate (that is, a filibuster): a motion, procedure or rule by which debate is ended so that a vote may be taken on the matter. For example, in the United States Senate, a three-fifths majority vote of the body is required to invoke cloture and terminate debate.
Synonyms
• closure
Verb
cloture (third-person singular simple present clotures, present participle cloturing, simple past and past participle clotured)
To end legislative debate by this means.
Anagrams
• Coulter, clouter, coulter, lectour
Source: Wiktionary
ClĂ´`ture", n. Etym: [F.] (Parliamentary Practice)
Definition: See Closure, 5.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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