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.
BROOK
brook, creek
(noun) a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); “the creek dried up every summer”
digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up
(verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant; “I cannot bear his constant criticism”; “The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks”; “he learned to tolerate the heat”; “She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
brook (third-person singular simple present brooks, present participle brooking, simple past and past participle brooked)
(transitive, obsolete) To use; enjoy; have the full employment of.
(transitive, obsolete) To earn; deserve.
(transitive) To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object).
Synonyms
• (use): apply, employ, utilize
• (earn): See also deserve
• (tolerate): See also tolerate
Etymology 2
Noun
brook (plural brooks)
A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
(Sussex, Kent) A water meadow.
(Sussex, Kent, in the plural) Low, marshy ground.
Synonyms
• beck
• burn
• coulee
• creek
• stream
Anagrams
• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok
Proper noun
Brook
A habitational surname for someone living by a brook.
A surname, a transliteration and normalization of Hebrew ברך (“blessed”).
A male given name from surnames, variant of Brooks.
A female given name from surnames, of modern usage, variant of Brooke.
Anagrams
• Borko, Borok, bokor, obrok
Source: Wiktionary
Brook, n. Etym: [OE. brok, broke, brook, AS. broc; akin to D. broek, LG. brok, marshy ground, OHG. pruoh, G. bruch marsh; prob. fr. the root of E. break, so as that it signifies water breaking through the earth, a spring or brook, as well as a marsh. See Break, v. t.]
Definition: A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.
Brook, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brooked; p. pr. & vb. n. Brooking.] Etym: [OE. broken, bruken, to use, enjoy, digest, AS. br; akin to D. gebruiken to use, OHG. pr, G. brauchen, gebrauchen, Icel. br, Goth. br, and L. frui, to enjoy. Cf. Fruit, Broker.]
1. To use; to enjoy. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To bear; to endure; to put up with; to tolerate; as, young men can not brook restraint. Spenser. Shall we, who could not brook one lord, Crouch to the wicked ten Macaulay.
3. To deserve; to earn. [Obs.] Sir J. Hawkins.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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