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.
BLUDGEON
bludgeon
(noun) a club used as a weapon
club, bludgeon
(verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon
bludgeon
(verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club; “The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
bludgeon (plural bludgeons)
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
Verb
bludgeon (third-person singular simple present bludgeons, present participle bludgeoning, simple past and past participle bludgeoned)
(transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
(transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
Synonyms
• (to club): cudgel
• (coerce): harass, pummel
Source: Wiktionary
Bludg"eon, n. Etym: [Cf. Ir. blocan a little block, Gael. plocan a mallet, W. plocyn, dim. of ploc block; or perh. connected with E. blow a stroke. Cf. Block, Blow a stroke.]
Definition: A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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