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.
ECLAMPSIA
eclampsia
(noun) a toxic condition characterized by convulsions and possibly coma during or immediately after pregnancy
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
eclampsia (usually uncountable, plural eclampsias)
(pathology) A complication of pregnancy characterized by seizures and coma due to hypertension.
Source: Wiktionary
Ec*lamp"si*a, n. Etym: [NL., from Gr. (Med.)
Definition: A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
Note: The term is generally restricted to a convulsive affection attending pregnancy and parturition, and to infantile convulsions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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SHTIK
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
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