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.
STOICS
Noun
stoics
plural of stoic
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Noun
Stoics
plural of Stoic
Anagrams
• Sciots
Source: Wiktionary
STOIC
Sto"ic, n. Etym: [L. stoicus, Gr.
1. A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
2. Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain. A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. Campbell. School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch.
Sto"ic, Sto"ic*al, a. Etym: [L. stoicus, Gr. stoĂŻque. See Stoic, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
2. Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
– Sto"ic*al*ly, adv.
– Sto"ic*al*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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