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.
PHENETICS
Etymology
Noun
phenetics (uncountable)
(systematics) A form of numerical systematics in which organisms are grouped based upon the total or relative number of shared characteristics.
Synonyms
• (form of numerical systematics): taximetrics, taxometrics
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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