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.
COLLIMATORS
Noun
collimators
plural of collimator
Anagrams
• microatolls, mortal coils
Source: Wiktionary
COLLIMATOR
Col"li*ma`tor, n.
1. (Astron.)
Definition: A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal. Nichol.
2. (Optics)
Definition: A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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