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.
PERPENDICULARS
Noun
perpendiculars
plural of perpendicular
Source: Wiktionary
PERPENDICULAR
Per`pen*dic"u*lar, a. Etym: [L. perpendicularis, perpendicularius: cf. F. perpendiculaire. See Perpendicle, Pension.]
1. Exactly upright or vertical; pointing to the zenith; at right angles to the plane of the horizon; extending in a right line from any point toward the center of the earth.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: At right angles to a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullions.
Per`pen*dic"u*lar, n.
1. A line at right angles to the plane of the horizon; a vertical line or direction.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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