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.
DICHOTOMISATION
dichotomization, dichotomisation
(noun) the act of dividing into two sharply different categories
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Noun
dichotomisation (plural dichotomisations)
Alternative spelling of dichotomization
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