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.
NASCENCE
birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
(noun) the event of being born; “they celebrated the birth of their first child”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
nascence (plural nascences)
(rare) Birth.
Coming into being; inception, beginning.
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
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