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.
DIABASE
Etymology
Noun
diabase (countable and uncountable, plural diabases)
(geology) A fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar.
Synonyms
• dolerite
Anagrams
• Abadies
Source: Wiktionary
Di"a*base, n. Etym: [F. diabase, fr. Gr. (Min.)
Definition: A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene with magnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. It includes part of what was early called greenstone.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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