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.
NON
not, non
(adverb) negation of a word or group of words; “he does not speak French”; “she is not going”; “they are not friends”; “not many”; “not much”; “not at all”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adverb
non (not comparable)
Obsolete form of none.
Source: Wiktionary
Non, a.
Definition: No; not. See No, a. Chaucer.
Non-. Etym: [L. non, OL. noenu, noenum, fr. neoenum, lit., not one. See None.]
Definition: A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non-attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.
Note: The prefix non- may be joined to the leading word by means of a hyphen, or, in most cases, the hyphen may be dispensed with. The list of words having the prefix non- could easily be lengthened.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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