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.
LITERATOR
Noun
literator (plural literators)
A literary person, a man of letters.
One who writes professionally.
A learned person.
Synonyms
• litterateur
Source: Wiktionary
Lit"er*a`tor, n. Etym: [L. litterator, literator. See Letter.]
1. One who teaches the letters or elements of knowledge; a petty schoolmaster. Burke.
2. A person devoted to the study of literary trifles, esp. trifles belonging to the literature of a former age. That class of subjects which are interesting to the regular literator or black-letter " bibliomane," simply because they have once been interesting. De Quincey.
3. A learned person; a literatus. Sir W. Hamilton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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