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.
BENAMED
Verb
benamed
simple past tense and past participle of bename
Anagrams
• beadmen, bedeman
Source: Wiktionary
BENAME
Be*name", v. t. [p. p. Benamed, Benempt.]
Definition: To promise; to name. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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