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.
ELIMINATE
excrete, egest, eliminate, pass
(verb) eliminate from the body; “Pass a kidney stone”
eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
(verb) kill in large numbers; “the plague wiped out an entire population”
extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with
(verb) terminate, end, or take out; “Let’s eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics”; “Socialism extinguished these archaic customs”; “eliminate my debts”
eliminate
(verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations
eliminate
(verb) remove from a contest or race; “The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race”
obviate, rid of, eliminate
(verb) do away with
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
eliminate (third-person singular simple present eliminates, present participle eliminating, simple past and past participle eliminated)
(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
(transitive, slang) To kill (a person or animal).
(ambitransitive, physiology) To excrete (waste products).
(transitive) To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
(accounting) To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
Synonyms
• See also destroy, abrogate, abolish
• (excrete): See urinate and defecate
Hyponyms
• give the chop to
• give the boot to
• give the sack to
• give the walking papers to
Anagrams
• itameline
Source: Wiktionary
E*lim"i*nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eliminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Eliminating.] Etym: [L. eliminatus, p. p. of eliminare; e out + limen threshold; prob. akin to limes boundary. See Limit.]
1. To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.
2. (Alg.)
Definition: To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth.
4. To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion. [Recent, and not well authorized]
5. (Physiol.)
Definition: To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OBLIQUE
(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”
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