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.
SENTIENCY
sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
sentiency (countable and uncountable, plural sentiencies)
The property of having sensation; sentience.
An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
Source: Wiktionary
Sen"ti*ence, Sen"ti*en*cy, n. Etym: [See Sentient, Sentence.]
Definition: The quality or state of being sentient; esp., the quality or state of having sensation. G. H. Lewes An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentieny of the mind. Earle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BARGAIN
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