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.
EXOGENIC
exogenous, exogenic
(adjective) derived or originating externally
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Etymology
Adjective
exogenic (comparative more exogenic, superlative most exogenic)
(geology) Originating on or above the surface of the earth; exogenetic.
Existing or arising outside of a system
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LININ
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
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