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.
SEMPITERNAL
dateless, endless, sempiternal
(adjective) having no known beginning and presumably no end; “the dateless rise and fall of the tides”; “time is endless”; “sempiternal truth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
sempiternal (not comparable)
Everlasting, eternal.
(philosophy) Everlasting, that is, having infinite temporal duration (as opposed to eternal: outside time and thus lacking temporal duration altogether).
Synonyms
• eternal
Anagrams
• intersample, planimeters
Source: Wiktionary
Sem`pi*ter"nal, a. Etym: [L. sempiternus, fr. semper always: cf. F. sempiternel.]
1. Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. Sir M. Hale.
2. Without beginning or end; eternal. Blackmore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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