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.
AVAILFUL
Etymology
Adjective
availful (comparative more availful, superlative most availful)
(obsolete) Profitable, useful; of much avail.
These Logicall and Aristotelian ordinances are not availfull [transl. Ă propos] for me, who onely endevour to become more wise and sufficient, and not more wittie or eloquent.
Source: Wiktionary
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ANYMORE
(adverb) at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative; “Alice doesn’t live here anymore”; “the children promised not to quarrel any more”
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