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.
QUINTILE
Noun
quintile (plural quintiles)
(statistics) Any of the quantiles which divide an ordered sample population into five equally numerous subsets.
(by extension) A subset thus obtained.
(astrology) An aspect of planets that are distant from each other by one fifth of a zodiac (72°)
Synonyms
• fifth
Hypernyms
• quantile
Coordinate terms
• (statistics): median (2-quantile), tercile/tertile (3), quartile (4), quintile (5), sextile (6), septile (7), octile (8), decile (10), hexadecile (16), ventile/vigintile (20), centile/percentile (100)
Anagrams
• quitline
Etymology
Proper noun
Quintile
(historical, obsolete) Alternative form of Quintilis: the former Roman name of the month July.
Anagrams
• quitline
Source: Wiktionary
Quin"tile, n. Etym: [F. quintil aspect, fr. L. quintus the fifth.] (Astron.)
Definition: The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72Âş. Hutton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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