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.
IMPLICATIVE
implicative, suggestive
(adjective) tending to suggest or imply; “artifacts suggestive of an ancient society”; “an implicative statement”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
implicative (comparative more implicative, superlative most implicative)
Tending to implicate or to imply; pertaining to implication.
Source: Wiktionary
Im"pli*ca*tive, a.
Definition: Tending to implicate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CHANCY
(adjective) subject to accident or chance or change; “a chancy appeal at best”; “getting that job was definitely fluky”; “a fluky wind”; “an iffy proposition”
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