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.
DEMOS
Etymology 1
Noun
demos
plural of demo
Etymology 2
Noun
demos (plural demoi)
(political science) The common populace of a state or district, the people.
(modern Greece) municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together
(historical, Ancient Greece) the ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state
(historical, Ancient Greece) the term for an ancient subdivision of Attica
Anagrams
• desmo, desmo-, domes, modes
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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