Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be āsatanic.ā However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
VIRAL
viral
(adjective) relating to or caused by a virus; āviral infectionā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
viral (not comparable)
(virology) Of or relating to a biological virus.
(virology) Caused by a virus.
(computing) Of the nature of an informatic virus; able to spread copies of itself to other computers.
(advertising and marketing) Spread by word of mouth, with minimal intervention in order to create buzz and interest.
(of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another.
Noun
viral (plural virals)
(marketing) A video, image or text spread by "word of mouth" on the internet or by e-mail for humorous, political or marketing purposes.
Anagrams
• Avril, arvil, rival
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
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