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.
SPECTRALITY
Etymology
Noun
spectrality (usually uncountable, plural spectralities)
(uncountable) The quality of being spectral or ghostly.
(countable) Something spectral; a ghost.
• No. 1, The Present Time
[…] traditions now really about extinct; not living now to almost any of us, and still haunting with their spectralities and gibbering ghosts (in a truly baleful manner) almost all of us!
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MECHANISM
(noun) the technical aspects of doing something; “a mechanism of social control”; “mechanisms of communication”; “the mechanics of prose style”
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