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.
BYWORDS
Noun
bywords
plural of byword
Source: Wiktionary
BYWORD
By"word`, n. Etym: [AS.bĂŻword; bĂŻ, E.by+word.]
1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. Bacon.
2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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