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.
MORTALITY
mortality
(noun) the quality or state of being mortal
deathrate, death rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality rate
(noun) the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
mortality (countable and uncountable, plural mortalities)
The state or quality of being mortal.
The state of being susceptible to death.
Antonym: immortality
(archaic) The quality of being punishable by death.
(archaic) The quality of causing death.
Synonyms: deadliness, lethality
The number of deaths.
Deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
Synonym: casualty rate
(biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
Synonyms: death rate, mortality rate
(figuratively) Death.
(figuratively, archaic) Mortals collectively.
Synonyms: humankind, humanity, mankind
Source: Wiktionary
Mor*tal"i*ty, n. Etym: [L. mortalitas: cf. F. mortalité.]
1. The condition or quality of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.
2. Human life; the life of a mortal being. From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality. Shak.
3. Those who are, or that which is, mortal; the human cace; humanity; human nature. Take these tears, mortality's relief. Pope.
4. Death; destruction. Shak.
5. The whole sum or number of deaths in a given time or a given community; also, the proportion of deaths to population, or to a specific number of the population; death rate; as, a time of great, or low, mortality; the mortality among the settlers was alarming. Bill of mortality. See under Bill.
– Law of mortality, a mathematical relation between the numbers living at different ages, so that from a given large number of persons alive at one age, it can be computed what number are likely to survive a given number of years.
– Table of mortality, a table exhibiting the average relative number of persons who survive, or who have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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