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.
COMMONPLACES
Noun
commonplaces
plural of commonplace
Source: Wiktionary
COMMONPLACE
Com"mon*place`, a.
Definition: Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
Com"mon*place`, n.
1. An idea or expression wanting originality or interest; a trite or customary remark; a platitude.
2. A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.
Com"mon*place`, v. t.
Definition: To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. Felton.
Com"mon*place`, v. i.
Definition: To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes. [Obs.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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