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.
QUARTICS
Noun
quartics
plural of quartic
Source: Wiktionary
QUARTIC
Quar"tic, a. Etym: [L.quartus fourth.] (Mach.)
Definition: Of the fourth degree.
Quar"tic, n. (a) (Alg.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic. (b) (Geom.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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