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.
HEPATIC
hepatic
(adjective) pertaining to or affecting the liver; “hepatic ducts”; “hepatic cirrhosis”
liverwort, hepatic
(noun) any of numerous small green nonvascular plants of the class Hepaticopsida growing in wet places and resembling green seaweeds or leafy mosses
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
hepatic (not comparable)
Of or relating to the liver.
Acting on or occurring in the liver.
Of a deep brownish-red color like that of liver.
Noun
hepatic (plural hepatics)
Any compound that acts on the liver.
A liverwort (kind of plant)
Anagrams
• aphetic
Source: Wiktionary
He*pat"ic, a. Etym: [L. hepaticus, Gr. jecur, Skr. yak: cf. F. hépatique.]
1. Of or pertaining to the liver; as, hepatic artery; hepatic diseases.
2. Resembling the liver in color or in form; as, hepatic cinnabar.
3. (Bot.)
Definition: Pertaining to, or resembling, the plants called Hepaticæ, or scale mosses and liverworts. Hepatic duct (Anat.), any biliary duct; esp., the duct, or one of the ducts, which carries the bile from the liver to the cystic and common bile ducts. See Illust., under Digestive.
– Hepatic gas (Old Chem.), sulphureted hydrogen gas.
– Hepatic mercurial ore, or Hepatic cinnabar. See under Cinnabar.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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