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.
WHIMSY
flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness
(noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; “I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory”
notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey
(noun) an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; “the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories”; “he had a whimsy about flying to the moon”; “whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
whimsy (usually uncountable, plural whimsies)
A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
Verb
whimsy (third-person singular simple present whimsies, present participle whimsying, simple past and past participle whimsied)
(transitive) To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.
Source: Wiktionary
Whim"sey, Whimsy, n.; pl. Whimseys or Whimsies. Etym: [See Whim.]
1. A whim; a freak; a capricious notion, a fanciful or odd conceit. "The whimsies of poets and painters." Ray. Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy. Swift. Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. Bancroft.
2. (Mining)
Definition: A whim.
Whim"sy, n.
Definition: A whimsey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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