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.
EXCEPTIVE
Etymology
Adjective
exceptive (not comparable)
exceptional, having an exception
Anagrams
• expective
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*cept"ive, a.
Definition: That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptive proposition. I. Watts. A particular and exceptive law. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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