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.
EONIAN
ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing
(adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely; “the ageless themes of love and revenge”; “eternal truths”; “life everlasting”; “hell’s perpetual fires”; “the unending bliss of heaven”
eonian, aeonian
(adjective) of or relating to a geological eon (longer than an era)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
eonian (comparative more eonian, superlative most eonian)
Of or pertaining to an eon
(by extension) everlasting
Source: Wiktionary
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