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.
BEDWARF
Etymology
Verb
bedwarf (third-person singular simple present bedwarfs, present participle bedwarfing, simple past and past participle bedwarfed)
(archaic, transitive) To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*dwarf", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bedwarfed.]
Definition: To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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