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.
DEP
Etymology 1
Noun
dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)
Short for department.
Etymology 2
Noun
dep (countable and uncountable, plural deps)
Short for deposit.
Short for departure.
(law, informal) A deposition.
(informal) A deputy.
(Canada, Quebec, informal) A dépanneur.
(computing, informal) A dependency.
Verb
dep (third-person singular simple present deps, present participle depping, simple past and past participle depped)
(informal) To deputize.
Verb
dep
depart or departs
deposed
Anagrams
• -ped, DPE, EDP, EPD, PDE, PED, Pde, ped
Noun
DEP (countable and uncountable, plural DEPs)
(US, military, countable) Initialism of delayed entry program.
(computing, uncountable) Initialism of data execution prevention.
Proper noun
DEP
Initialism of Department of Environmental protection.
Anagrams
• -ped, DPE, EDP, EPD, PDE, PED, Pde, ped
Source: Wiktionary
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