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.
PORISMS
Noun
porisms
plural of porism
Source: Wiktionary
PORISM
Po"rism, n. Etym: [Gr. porisme.]
1. (Geom.)
Definition: A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.
2. (Gr. Geom.)
Definition: A corollary. Brande & C.
Note: Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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