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.
PHLEGMS
Noun
phlegms
plural of phlegm
Source: Wiktionary
PHLEGM
Phlegm, n. Etym: [F. phlegme, flegme, L. phlegma, fr. Gr. Phlox, Flagrant, Flame, Bleak, a., and Fluminate.]
1. One of the four humors of which the ancients supposed the blood to be composed. See Humor. Arbuthnot.
2. (Physiol.)
Definition: Viscid mucus secreted in abnormal quantity in the respiratory and digestive passages.
3. (Old Chem.)
Definition: A watery distilled liquor, in distinction from a spirituous liquor. Crabb.
4. Sluggishness of temperament; dullness; want of interest; indifference; coldness. They judge with fury, but they write with phlegm. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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