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.
RIGID
rigid, stiff
(adjective) incapable of or resistant to bending; “a rigid strip of metal”; “a table made of rigid plastic”; “a palace guardsman stiff as a poker”; “stiff hair”; “a stiff neck”
rigid
(adjective) designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure
inflexible, rigid, unbending
(adjective) incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; “a rigid disciplinarian”; “an inflexible law”; “an unbending will to dominate”
fixed, set, rigid
(adjective) fixed and unmoving; “with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare”; “his bearded face already has a set hollow look”- Connor Cruise O’Brien; “a face rigid with pain”
rigid, strict
(adjective) incapable of compromise or flexibility
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
rigid (comparative rigider or more rigid, superlative most rigid)
Stiff, rather than flexible.
Synonym: inflexible
Antonym: flexible
Fixed, rather than moving.
Antonym: moving
Rigorous and unbending.
Uncompromising.
Antonym: compromising
Noun
rigid (plural rigids)
A bicycle with no suspension system.
Source: Wiktionary
Rig"id, a. Etym: [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb: cf. F. rigide. Cf. Rigor. ]
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton.
2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence. The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. Hawthorne.
Syn.
– Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DOOMED
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
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