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.
inoculant, inoculum
(noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease
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inoculum (plural inoculums or inocula)
The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant
Source: Wiktionary
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
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.