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.
GEOGONY
Etymology
Noun
geogony (countable and uncountable, plural geogonies)
(obsolete, uncountable) The branch of science dealing with the formation of the Earth.
(obsolete, countable) A particular account of the formation of the Earth.
Source: Wiktionary
Ge*og"o*ny, n. Etym: [Gr. géogonie.]
Definition: The branch of science which treats of the formation of the earth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PREMATURELY
(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; “the child was born prematurely”
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