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.
EXTERIOR
exterior
(adjective) situated in or suitable for the outdoors or outside of a building; “an exterior scene”; “exterior grade plywood”; “exterior paints”
outside, exterior
(noun) the outer side or surface of something
outside, exterior
(noun) the region that is outside of something
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
exterior (not comparable)
Relating to the outside parts or surface of something.
Being from outside a country; foreign.
Outdoors.
Antonyms
• interior
Noun
exterior (plural exteriors)
The outside part, parts or surface of something.
Antonyms: inside, interior
Foreign lands.
Antonym: interior
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*te"ri*or, a. Etym: [L. exterior, compar. of exter or exterus on the outside, outward, foreign, strange, a compar. fr. ex: cf. F. extérieur. See Ex, and cf. Extreme, Interior.]
1. External; outward; pertaining to that which is external; -- opposed to interior; as, the exterior part of a sphere. Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man Resemble that it was. Shak.
2. External; on the outside; without the limits of; extrinsic; as, an object exterior to a man, opposed to what is within, or in his mind. Without exterior help sustained. Milton.
3. Relating to foreign nations; foreign; as, the exterior relations of a state or kingdom. Exterior angle (Geom.), the angle included between any side of a triangle or polygon and the prolongation of the adjacent side; also, an angle included between a line crossing two parallel lines and either of the latter on the outside.
– Exterior side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm.
Note: See Illust. of Ravelin.
Ex*te"ri*or, n.
1. The outward surface or part of a thing; that which is external; outside.
2. Outward or external deportment, form, or ceremony; visible act; as, the exteriors of religion.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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