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.
EMIGRANT
emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoer
(noun) someone who leaves one country to settle in another
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
emigrant (plural emigrants)
Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
Antonyms
• immigrant
Anagrams
• Tigerman, antigerm, man-tiger, remating
Source: Wiktionary
Em"i*grant, a. Etym: [L. emigrans, -antis, p. pr. of emigrare to emigrate: cf. F. Ă©migrant. See Emigrate, v. i.]
1. Removing from one country to another; emigrating; as, an emigrant company or nation.
2. Pertaining to an emigrant; used for emigrants; as, an emigrant ship or hospital.
Em"i*grant, n.
Definition: One who emigrates, or quits one country or region to settle in another.
Syn.
– Emigrant, Immigrant. Emigrant and emigration have reference to the country from which the migration is made; the correlative words immigrant and immigration have reference to the country into which the migration is made, the former marking the going out from a country, the latter the coming into it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ATROPHIED
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