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.
TREATMENT
treatment, intervention
(noun) care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)
treatment, handling
(noun) the management of someone or something; “the handling of prisoners”; “the treatment of water sewage”; “the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system”
treatment
(noun) a manner of dealing with something artistically; “his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture”
discussion, treatment, discourse
(noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; “the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic”; “his treatment of the race question is badly biased”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
treatment (countable and uncountable, plural treatments)
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
Medical care for an illness or injury.
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
(countable, film) A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
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Source: Wiktionary
Treat"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. F. traitement. See Treat.]
1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
2. Entertainment; treat. [Obs.] Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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