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.
BEHOWL
Etymology
Verb
behowl (third-person singular simple present behowls, present participle behowling, simple past and past participle behowled)
(archaic, transitive) To howl at.
Source: Wiktionary
Be*howl", v. t.
Definition: To howl at. [Obs.] The wolf behowls the moon. Shak.
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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