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.
BEDROPT
Etymology
Verb
bedropt
(archaic) simple past tense and past participle of bedrop
Source: Wiktionary
BEDROP
Be*drop", v. t.
Definition: To sprinkle, as with drops. The yellow carp, in scales bedropped with gold. Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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