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.
DEFRAUDMENT
Etymology
Noun
defraudment (countable and uncountable, plural defraudments)
(obsolete) Privation by fraud; defrauding
Source: Wiktionary
De*fraud"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. defraudement.]
Definition: Privation by fraud; defrauding. [Obs.] Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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