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.
REPUGNANT
abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive
(adjective) offensive to the mind; “an abhorrent deed”; “the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee”; “morally repugnant customs”; “repulsive behavior”; “the most repulsive character in recent novels”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
repugnant (comparative more repugnant, superlative most repugnant)
Offensive or repulsive; arousing disgust or aversion.
(legal) Opposed or in conflict.
Usage notes
• Nouns to which "repugnant" is often applied: act, nature, behavior, practice, character, thing, crime.
Anagrams
• pregnaunt
Source: Wiktionary
Re*pug"nant (-nant), a. Etym: [F. répugnant, or L. repugnans, -antis, p. pr. of repugnare. See Repugn.]
Definition: Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, rarely and less properly by with; as, all rudeness was repugnant to her nature. [His sword] repugnant to command. Shak. There is no breach of a divine law but is more or less repugnant unto the will of the Lawgiver, God himself. Perkins.
Syn.
– Opposite; opposed; adverse; contrary; inconsistent; irreconcilable; hostile; inimical.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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