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.
PHTHISIC
Etymology
Noun
phthisic (plural phthisics)
(pathology) A wasting illness of the lungs, such as asthma or tuberculosis; phthisis.
(pathology, formerly) Any wasting disease.
A person suffering from phthisis.
Any wasting or shrinking of another body part such as, for example, the eye (phthisis bulbi).
Adjective
phthisic (not comparable)
Of or relating to phthisis or tuberculosis; tubercular.
Source: Wiktionary
Phthis"ic, n.
Definition: Same as Phthisis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CHRONIC
(adjective) being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering; “chronic indigestion”; “a chronic shortage of funds”; “a chronic invalid”
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