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.
NOMEN
Etymology
Noun
nomen (plural nomina)
(historical) The name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, designating them as a member of a gens.
The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ.
Anagrams
• Menno, Menon
Source: Wiktionary
Nome, No"men, obs. p. p.
Definition: of Nim. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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