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.
CARK
perturb, unhinge, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract, disorder
(verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; “She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)
(obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
(obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
(intransitive) To labor anxiously.
Noun
cark (plural carks)
(obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
(obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.
Etymology 2
Verb
cark (third-person singular simple present carks, present participle carking, simple past and past participle carked)
Eye dialect spelling of caulk.
Etymology 3
Verb
cark
See cark it.
Anagrams
• RACK, rack
Source: Wiktionary
Cark, n. Etym: [OE. cark, fr. a dialectic form of F. charge; cf. W. carc anxiety, care, Arm karg charge, burden. See Charge, and cf. Cargo.]
Definition: A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry. [Archaic.] His heavy head, devoid of careful cark. Spenser. Fling cark and care aside. Motherwell. Ereedom from the cares of money and the cark of fashion. R. D. Blackmore.
Cark, v. i.
Definition: To be careful, anxious, solicitous, or troubles in mind; to worry or grieve. [R.] Beau. & fl.
Cark, v. t.
Definition: To vex; to worry; to make by anxious care or worry. [R.] Nor can a man, independently . . . of God's blessing, care and cark himself one penny richer. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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