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.
SCHEDULE
agenda, docket, schedule
(noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
schedule
(noun) an ordered list of times at which things are planned to occur
schedule
(verb) plan for an activity or event; “I’ve scheduled a concert next week”
schedule
(verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events; “I scheduled an exam for this afternoon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
schedule (plural schedules)
(obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note. [14th-17th c.]
(legal) A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract. [from 15th c.]
(US, law) One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification. [from 20th c.]
A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
Synonyms: catalog, list, listing, register, registry, table
A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur. [from 19th c.]
Synonyms: timeline, timetable
(computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources. [from 20th c.]
Verb
schedule (third-person singular simple present schedules, present participle scheduling, simple past and past participle scheduled)
To create a time-schedule.
To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
(Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under the Mental Health Act.
Source: Wiktionary
Sched"ule (; in England commonly ; 277), n. Etym: [F. cédule, formerly also spelt schedule, L. schedula, dim. of scheda, scida, a strip of papyrus bark, a leaf of paper; akin to (or perh. from) Gr. scindere to cleave, Gr. Schism, and cf. Cedule.]
Definition: A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document, as to a will, a lease, a statute, etc.
Syn.
– Catalogue; list; inventory. see List.
Sched"ule, v. t.
Definition: To form into, or place in, a schedule.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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