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.
THESMOTHETE
Etymology
Noun
thesmothete (plural thesmothetes)
(historical, Ancient Greece) A junior archon in Ancient Greece.
Source: Wiktionary
Thes"mo*thete, n. Etym: [Gr. (Gr. Antiq.)
Definition: A lawgiver; a legislator; one of the six junior archons at Athens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ANYMORE
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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