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.
SUSPENSORIUM
Etymology
Noun
suspensorium (plural suspensoria)
(anatomy) Anything that suspends or holds up a part, especially the mandibular suspensorium, a series of bones or cartilages connecting the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals
Source: Wiktionary
Sus`pen*so"ri*um, n.; pl. Suspensoria. Etym: [NL.] (Anat.)
Definition: Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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