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.
SEGREGATION
segregation, sequestration
(noun) the act of segregating or sequestering; “sequestration of the jury”
segregation, separatism
(noun) a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
segregation
(noun) (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
segregation (countable and uncountable, plural segregations)
The setting apart or separation of things or people, as a natural process, a manner of organizing people that may be voluntary or enforced by law.
(biology) The setting apart in Mendelian inheritance of alleles, such that each parent passes only one allele to its offspring.
(mineralogy) Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive or adhesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
(politics, public policy) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into racial or other categories (e.g. religion, sex).
(sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
(genetics) The separation of a pair of chromatids or chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis
Synonyms
• apartheid
Antonyms
• desegregation
Anagrams
• Saint George
Source: Wiktionary
Seg`re*ga"tion, n. Etym: [L. segregatio: cf. F. ségrégation.]
1. The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
2. (Geol.)
Definition: Separation from a mass, and gathering about centers or into cavities at hand through cohesive attraction or the crystallizing process.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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