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.
BRASHEST
Adjective
brashest
superlative form of brash: most brash
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• basherts
Source: Wiktionary
BRASH
Brash, a. Etym: [Cf. Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw. & Dan. barsk.]
Definition: Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.
Brash, a. Etym: [Cf. Amer. bresk, brusk, fragile, brittle.]
Definition: Brittle, as wood or vegetables. [Colloq., U. S.] Bartlett.
Brash, n. Etym: [See Brash brittle.]
1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
3. (Geol.)
Definition: Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.
4. Broken fragments of ice. Kane. Water brash (Med.), an affection characterized by a spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis.
– Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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