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.
IDEOLOGIES
Noun
ideologies
plural of ideology
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Source: Wiktionary
IDEOLOGY
I`de*ol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Ideo- + -logy: cf. F. idéologie.]
1. The science of ideas. Stewart.
2. (Metaph.)
Definition: A theory of the origin of ideas which derives them exclusively from sensation.
Note: By a double blunder in philosophy and Greek, idéologie . . . has in France become the name peculiarly distinctive of that philosophy of mind which exclusively derives our knowledge from sensation. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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