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.
CULTURISTS
Noun
culturists
plural of culturist
Source: Wiktionary
CULTURIST
Cul"tur*ist, n.
1. A cultivator.
2. One who is an advocate of culture. The culturists, by which term I mean not those who esteem culture (as what intelligent man does notJ. C. Shairp
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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