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.
CONSPIRED
Verb
conspired
simple past tense and past participle of conspire
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
CONSPIRE
Con*spire", v. i. [imp. & p.p. Conspired; p.pr. & vb.n. Conspiring.] Etym: [F. conspirer, L. onspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit.]
1. To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together. They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him. Gen. xxxvii. 18. You have conspired against our royal person, Joined with an enemy proclaimed. Shak.
2. To concur to one end; to agree. The press, the pulpit, and the stage Conspire to censure and expose our age. Roscommon.
Syn.
– To unite; concur; complot; confederate; league.
Con*spire", v. t.
Definition: To plot; to plan; to combine for. Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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