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.
MICROGRAPH
Etymology
Noun
micrograph (plural micrographs)
An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope
A pantograph instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
Verb
micrograph (third-person singular simple present micrographs, present participle micrographing, simple past and past participle micrographed)
To produce such an image by micrography.
Source: Wiktionary
Mi"cro*graph, n. Etym: [See Micrography.]
Definition: An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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