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.
COMET
comet
(noun) (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
comet (plural comets)
(astronomy) A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in a (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun.
A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body.
Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
Synonyms
• faxed star (rare)
Anagrams
• Comte, comte
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Comet
The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus.
Coordinate terms
(Santa Claus's reindeer):
• Dasher
• Dancer
• Prancer
• Vixen
• Cupid
• Donner
• Blitzen
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Comet
(programming) A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it.
Anagrams
• Comte, comte
Source: Wiktionary
Com"et, n. Etym: [L. cometes, cometa, from Gr. coma: cf. F. comète.] (Astron.)
Definition: A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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STACCATO
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