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.
MAMZER
Etymology
Noun
mamzer (plural mamzers or mamzerim)
A child who is born out of wedlock, from an incestuous or adulterous relationship or from parents of different faiths; a bastard.
A contemptible person; a jerk.
(Judaism) A child born to Jewish parents whose relationship is forbidden by Jewish law, such as an unmarried man and a married woman, or whose mother is a mamzer. The term is often mistranslated as bastard.
Source: Wiktionary
Mam"zer, n. Etym: [Heb. mámz.]
Definition: A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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