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.
BEDUNG
Etymology
Verb
bedung (third-person singular simple present bedungs, present participle bedunging, simple past and past participle bedunged)
(transitive) To cover with dung or manure.
(transitive, sometimes, figuratively) To bedaub or defile.
Anagrams
• Bugden, bunged
Source: Wiktionary
Be*dung", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedunged.]
Definition: To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively. Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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