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.
INTERVENTIONS
Noun
interventions
plural of intervention
Source: Wiktionary
INTERVENTION
In`ter*ven"tion, n. Etym: [L. interventio an interposition: cf. F. intervention.]
1. The act of intervening; interposition. Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane. Holder.
2. Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; mediation. Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power. Sir W. Temple.
3. (Civil Law)
Definition: The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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