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.
CROTALINE
Etymology
Adjective
crotaline (comparative more crotaline, superlative most crotaline)
(zoology) Resembling, or relating to, the Crotalinae, or rattlesnake subfamily
Noun
crotaline (plural crotalines)
Any snake of the subfamily Crotalinae
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Source: Wiktionary
Crot"a*line (krt"-ln or kr`t-), a. Etym: [See Crotalus.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: Resembling, or pertaining to, the Crotalidae, or Rattlesnake family.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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