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.
BEDUNGED
Verb
bedunged
simple past tense and past participle of bedung
Source: Wiktionary
BEDUNG
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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OSTENSIBLE
(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”
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