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.
WITHERITE
Etymology
After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.
Noun
witherite (countable and uncountable, plural witherites)
(mineral) A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO3
Source: Wiktionary
With"er*ite, n. Etym: [So called after Dr. W. Withering.] (Min.)
Definition: Barium carbonate occurring in white or gray six-sided twin crystals, and also in columnar or granular masses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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