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.
ULAMA
ulema, ulama
(noun) the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam’s sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
ulama (uncountable)
A (modern) ball game, descended from tlachtli.
Etymology 2
Noun
ulama pl (plural only)
(Islam) Alternative form of ulema
Etymology 3
Noun
ulama
The devil bird (an avian cryptid of Sri Lanka)
Source: Wiktionary
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TYPIFY
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
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