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.
FINANCES
funds, finances, monetary resource, cash in hand, pecuniary resource
(noun) assets in the form of money
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
finances
plural of finance
Noun
finances pl (plural only)
funds or other financial resources
Verb
finances
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of finance
Source: Wiktionary
FINANCE
Fi*nance", n. Etym: [F., fr. LL. financia payment of money, money, fr. finare to pay a fine or subsidy (cf. OF. finer to finish, pay), fr. L. finis end. See Fine, n., Finish.]
1. The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources. All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. Bacon.
2. The science of raising and expending the public revenue. "Versed in the details of finance." Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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