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.
DEGRESSION
Etymology 1
Noun
degression (countable and uncountable, plural degressions)
(obsolete) Descent, the act of descending.
(economics) Degressive taxation, a system of progressive decreases in a rate of taxation (as tariffs etc.) below certain benchmarks.
(publishing) Degressive description, a system of varying descriptions of a book in accordance to its importance or available space.
Hypernyms
• (taxation): graduation
Etymology 2
Noun
degression (plural degressions)
Obsolete spelling of digression.
Source: Wiktionary
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