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.
MONOTONIC
flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous
(adjective) sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; “the owl’s faint monotonous hooting”
monotonic, monotone
(adjective) of a sequence or function; consistently increasing and never decreasing or consistently decreasing and never increasing in value
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
monotonic (not comparable)
of or using the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress. It replaced polytonic system in 1982.
(mathematics) said of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
Uttered in a monotone; monotonous.
Antonyms
• (using Greek system of diacritics): polytonic
Source: Wiktionary
Mon`o*ton"ic, Mon`o*ton"ic*al, a.
Definition: Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous. "Monotonical declamation." Chesterfield.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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