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.
SYLVICULTURE
Noun
sylviculture (countable and uncountable, plural sylvicultures)
Alternative spelling of silviculture
Source: Wiktionary
Syl"vi*cul`ture, n. Etym: [L. sylva, silva, forest + E. culture.]
Definition: The cultivation of forest trees for timber or other purposes; forestry; arboriculture.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEMLOCK
(noun) poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; “Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock”
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