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.
COVELLITE
Etymology
Noun
covellite (countable and uncountable, plural covellites)
(mineral) A shiny indigo-blue sulfide mineral, CuS, that is an ore of copper.
Source: Wiktionary
Co*vel"line (k-vl"ln), Co*vel"lite (-lt), n. Etym: [After Covelli, the discoverer.] (Min.)
Definition: A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Word of the Day
19 April 2025
CATCH
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
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