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.
ZOOTYPE
Etymology
Noun
zootype (plural zootypes)
(biology) A proposed archetype of the form of all animals, based not on a shared body plan but on conserved molecular homologies.
(symbology) An animal totem; an animal (or animal figure) that is taken as symbolic of a deeper abstraction.
Source: Wiktionary
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SUMMIT
(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”
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