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.
COLLIDE
collide, clash
(verb) crash together with violent impact; “The cars collided”; “Two meteors clashed”
collide
(verb) cause to collide; “The physicists collided the particles”
clash, jar, collide
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict; “These colors clash”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)
(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.
(intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
Synonyms
• clash
Anagrams
• Cedillo, codille, collied
Source: Wiktionary
Col*lide", v. i. Etym: [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.]
Definition: To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.
Col*lide", v. t.
Definition: To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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