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.
CARUCATE
Etymology
Noun
carucate (plural carucates)
(historical) The notional area of land able to be farmed in a year by a team of 8 oxen pulling a carruca plow, usually reckoned at 120 acres.
Synonyms
• hide, plow, plough, plowland, ploughland, carrucate, carve, (Scots) ploughgate, plowgate
Hypernyms
• (100 carucates) See hundred
Hyponyms
• (1/4 carucate) See virgate
• (1/8 carucate) See oxgang
• (1/16 carucate) See nook
• (1/32 carucate) See fardel
• (various & for further divisions) See acre
• (Scottish divisions): See ploughgate
Anagrams
• accurate
Source: Wiktionary
Car"u*cate, n. Etym: [LL. carucata, carrucata. See Carucage.]
Definition: A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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