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.
SIBILANCE
Noun
sibilance (countable and uncountable, plural sibilances)
The quality of being sibilant: a hissing quality.
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Sib"i*lance, Sib"i*lan*cy, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being sibilant; sibilation. Milton would not have avoided them for their sibilancy, he who wrote . . . verses that hiss like Medusa's head in wrath. Lowell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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