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.
CRUDITY
crudeness, crudity, gaucheness
(noun) an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; “the whole town was famous for its crudeness”
crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness
(noun) a wild or unrefined state
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
crudity (countable and uncountable, plural crudities)
(uncountable) The state of being crude.
(countable) A crude act or characteristic.
(obsolete, medicine) Indigestion; undigested food in the stomach; badly-concocted humours.
Synonyms
• crudeness
Source: Wiktionary
Cru"di*ty (kr"d-t), n.; pl. Crudities (-t. Etym: [L. cruditas, fr. crudus: cf. F. crudit. See Crude.]
1. The condition of being crude; rawness.
2. That which is in a crude or undigested state; hence, superficial, undigested views, not reduced to order or form. "Cridities in the stomach." Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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