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.
PRECISIAN
Etymology
Noun
precisian (plural precisians)
A religious purist; a Puritan.
Someone who strictly observes the rules; a pedant or stickler.
Anagrams
• periscian
Source: Wiktionary
Pre*ci"sian, n.
1. One who limits, or restrains. [Obs.]
2. An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to the English Puritans. The most dissolute cavaliers stood aghast at the dissoluteness of the emancipated precisian. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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