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.
LEXEME
lexeme
(noun) a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; ‘go’ and ‘went’ and ‘gone’ and ‘going’ are all members of the English lexeme ‘go’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lexeme (plural lexemes)
(linguistics) A unit of lexical meaning, roughly corresponding to the set of inflected forms taken by a single word.
(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).
Source: Wiktionary
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ANOMALY
(noun) (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
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