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.
MELANICS
Noun
melanics
plural of melanic
Anagrams
• Anselmic, mansicle, meniscal, mescalin, misclean
Source: Wiktionary
MELANIC
Me*lan"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
1. Melanotic.
2. (Ethnol.)
Definition: Of or pertaining to the black-haired races. Prichard.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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