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.
CRISES
CRISIS
crisis
(noun) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; “after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better”
crisis
(noun) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; “they went bankrupt during the economic crisis”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
crises
plural of crisis
Anagrams
• scries
Source: Wiktionary
CRISIS
Cri"sis (kr"ss), n.; pl. Crises (-s. Etym: [L. crisis, Gr. Certain.]
1. The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham.
2. (Med.)
Definition: That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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