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.
FEELERS
Noun
feelers
plural of feeler
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Source: Wiktionary
FEELER
Feel"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, feels.
2. (Zoöl.)
Definition: One of the sense organs or certain animals (as insects), which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham.
3. Anything, as a proposal, observation, etc., put forth or thrown out in order to ascertain the views of others; something tentative.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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