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.
IDEOGRAPHY
ideography
(noun) the use of ideograms in writing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
ideography (countable and uncountable, plural ideographies)
The use of ideograms; logography.
Source: Wiktionary
I`de*og"ra*phy, n.
Definition: The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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