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.
DOMESTICALLY
domestically
(adverb) with respect to home or family; “the housewife bored us with her domestically limited conversation”
domestically
(adverb) with respect to the internal affairs of a government; “domestically, the president proposes a more moderate economic policy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
domestically (comparative more domestically, superlative most domestically)
In a domestic manner
(sports) at home, playing in one's home ground
Source: Wiktionary
Do*mes"tic*al*ly, adv.
Definition: In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
DOMESTIC
Do*mes"tic, a. Etym: [L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome.]
1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.
4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak.
3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.
4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.
5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.
Do*mes"tic, n.
1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox.
2. pl. (Com.)
Definition: Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DISKETTE
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