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.
MALMAG
Etymology
Noun
malmag (plural malmags)
(zoology) The tarsier.
Source: Wiktionary
Mal"mag, n. Etym: [F., from native name in Madagascar.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The tarsius, or spectral lemur.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANYMORE
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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