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.
SANATORY
Etymology
Adjective
sanatory (comparative more sanatory, superlative most sanatory)
producing health; healing or curative
Synonyms
• sanative
Source: Wiktionary
San"a*to*ry, a. Etym: [LL. sanatorius, fr. L. sa to heal. See Sanable.]
Definition: Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.
Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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