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.
COMPONE
Etymology
Verb
compone (third-person singular simple present compones, present participle componing, simple past and past participle componed)
(archaic, transitive) To compose; to settle; to arrange.
Source: Wiktionary
Com*pone", v. t. Etym: [L. componere. See Compound.]
Definition: To compose; to settle; to arrange. [Obs.] A good pretense for componing peace. Strype.
Com*po"ne, a. Etym: [F.]
Definition: See Compony.
Com*po"ny, Com*po"né, a. Etym: [F. componé.] (Her.)
Definition: Divided into squares of alternate tinctures in a single row; -- said of any bearing; or, in the case of a bearing having curved lines, divided into patches of alternate colors following the curve. If there are two rows it is called counter-compony.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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