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.
ZOMBIE
zombie, zombi
(noun) several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur
automaton, zombi, zombie
(noun) someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; “only an automaton wouldn’t have noticed”
zombi, zombie, living dead
(noun) a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force
zombi, zombie, snake god
(noun) a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies
zombi, zombie, zombi spirit, zombie spirit
(noun) (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
zombie (plural zombies)
A snake god or fetish in religions of West Africa and elsewhere.
(voodoo, superstition) A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces (such as magic), with no soul or will of his/her own.
(fiction) A deceased person who becomes reanimate to attack the living.
Synonyms: living dead, ghoul, walking dead
(figuratively) An apathetic person.
(figuratively) A human being in a state of extreme mental exhaustion.
An information worker who has signed a nondisclosure agreement.
Synonym: intellectual prostitute
(computing) A process or task which has terminated but has not been removed from the list of processes, typically because it has an unresponsive parent process.
(computing) A computer affected by malware which causes it to do whatever the attacker wants it to do without the user's knowledge.
A cocktail of rum and fruit juices.
(Canada, historical, derogatory) A conscripted member of the Canadian military during World War II who was assigned to home defence rather than to combat in Europe.
(Australia, slang) Marijuana, or similar drugs.
Synonym: Thesaurus:marijuana
(philosophy) A hypothetical being that is indistinguishable from a normal human being except in that it lacks conscious experience, qualia, or sentience.
Synonym: p-zombie
Source: Wiktionary
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