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.
EXTRACTION
extraction
(noun) the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force); “the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction”
origin, descent, extraction
(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry; “he comes from good origins”
extraction
(noun) the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
extraction (countable and uncountable, plural extractions)
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms
• (origin, ancestry): descent, lineage
• (something extracted): extract, reduction; See also decrement
Anagrams
• tetraxonic
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*trac"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. extraction.]
1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.
2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. "A family of ancient extraction." Clarendon.
3. That which is extracted; extract; essence. They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. Milton. The extraction of roots. (Math.) (a) The operation of finding the root of a given number or quantity. (b) The method or rule by which the operation is performed; evolution.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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