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.
SCATOLOGY
scatology
(noun) (medicine) the chemical analysis of excrement (for medical diagnosis or for paleontological purposes)
scatology
(noun) a preoccupation with obscenity (especially that dealing with excrement or excretory functions)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
scatology (countable and uncountable, plural scatologies)
The scientific study or chemical analysis of faeces.
A filthy epithet.
(psychology, medicine) Interest in or obsession with faeces or other excrement.
Literature, humor, or pornography featuring excrement or excreting.
Synonyms
• (scientific study of faeces): coprology
• (interest in or obsession with faeces): coprophilia
Source: Wiktionary
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