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.
MONOPHASE
Etymology
Adjective
monophase (not comparable)
(electricity) Having a single phase of alternating current
(chemistry, physics) Existing as a single phase (normally a liquid)
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Source: Wiktionary
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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