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.
PSYCHOGRAPH
Etymology
Noun
psychograph (plural psychographs)
One of various graphical representations of a cognitive or psychological profile.
(spiritualism) A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin
(spiritualism) Any of various devices used for automatic writing.
Any of various devices that purportedly read a person's thoughts.
psychobiography
A piece of prose that describes hallucinations or phantoms.
A photograph, film, or other recorded image that evokes the feeling of a person, time, or place.
Verb
psychograph (third-person singular simple present psychographs, present participle psychographing, simple past and past participle psychographed)
To produce a psychograph (any sense).
Source: Wiktionary
Word of the Day
25 December 2024
UNAMBIGUOUS
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
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