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.
SANIES
pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering
(noun) a fluid product of inflammation
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
sanies (countable and uncountable, plural sanies)
(medicine) a thin mixture of pus and blood serum discharged from a wound; ichor
Anagrams
• Inessa, Saines, anesis, anises, asines, sansei
Source: Wiktionary
Sa"ni*es, n. Etym: [L.] (Med.)
Definition: A thin, serous fluid commonly discharged from ulcers or foul wounds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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DIRECTIONALITY
(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”
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