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.
COMPUNCTIOUS
Adjective
compunctious (comparative more compunctious, superlative most compunctious)
Exhibiting compunctions, scruples, feelings of guilt.
Source: Wiktionary
Com*punc"tious, a.
Definition: Of the nature of compunction; caused by conscience; attended with, or causing, compunction. That no compunctious vistings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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