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.
IMBECILIC
imbecile, imbecilic, idiotic
(adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
imbecilic (comparative more imbecilic, superlative most imbecilic)
like or as an imbecile; so senseless as to be laughable; absurd, foolish, stupid, idiotic.
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMUNICATIONS
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
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