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.
RESIDUUM
remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest
(noun) something left after other parts have been taken away; “there was no remainder”; “he threw away the rest”; “he took what he wanted and I got the balance”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
residuum (plural residuums or residua)
The residue, remainder or rest of something
(chemistry) The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
(fuzzy logic) A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: , where denotes the t-norm function and denotes the supremum.
The residuum of the minimum t-norm is a function such that
(legal) The residue of an estate
Synonyms
• (rest of something): lave, remnant; See also remainder
Source: Wiktionary
Re*sid"u*um (-m), n. Etym: [L. See Residue.]
Definition: That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue. "I think so," is the whole residuum . . . after evaporating the prodigious pretensions of the zealot demagogue. L. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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