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.
BEHOLDER
perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
(noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
beholder (plural beholders)
Someone who observes or beholds; an observer or spectator.
(fantasy) A fictional monster in roleplaying games, a floating orb of flesh with a large mouth and many eyes on stalks.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*hold"er, n.
Definition: One who beholds; a spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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