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.
ABERRATE
aberrate
(verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration; “The surfaces of the concave lens may be proportioned so as to aberrate exactly equal to the convex lens”
aberrate
(verb) diverge from the expected; “The President aberrated from being a perfect gentleman”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
aberrate (third-person singular simple present aberrates, present participle aberrating, simple past and past participle aberrated)
(intransitive) To go astray; to diverge; to deviate (from); deviate from. [mid 18th century]
(transitive) To distort; to cause aberration of. [late 19th century]
Usage notes
• The transitive sense is chiefly used in the past participle form (as aberrated).
Source: Wiktionary
Ab"er*rate, v.i. Etym: [L. aberratus, p.pr. of aberrare; ab + errare to wander. See Err.]
Definition: To go astray; to diverge. [R.] Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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FATIGUE
(noun) (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; “he was suffering from museum fatigue”; “after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue”; “the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue”; “political fatigue”
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