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.
CONTINUUM
continuum
(noun) a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
continuum (plural continuums or continua)
A continuous series or whole, no part of which is noticeably different from its adjacent parts, although the ends or extremes of it are very different from each other.
A continuous extent.
(mathematics) The set of real numbers; more generally, any compact connected metric space.
(musical instruments) A touch-sensitive strip, similar to an electronic standard musical keyboard, except that the note steps are 1/100 of a semitone, and so are not separately marked.
Synonyms
• (set of real numbers): ℝ (translingual)
Source: Wiktionary
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COVERT
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
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