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.
LUETIC
Etymology
Adjective
luetic (not comparable)
Of or pertaining to lues (syphilis).
Noun
luetic (plural luetics)
(medicine, psychiatry, dated) A person who has lues (syphilis).
Anagrams
• Lucite, lucite
Source: Wiktionary
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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