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.
ORDO
Etymology
Noun
ordo (plural ordines or ordos)
(music) A musical phrase constructed from one or more statements of one modal pattern and ending in a rest.
(Roman Catholicism) A calendar which prescribes the Mass and office which is to be celebrated each day.
Anagrams
• Rood, door, odor, rood
Source: Wiktionary
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ANALYSIS
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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