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.
DETRACT
Etymology
Verb
detract (third-person singular simple present detracts, present participle detracting, simple past and past participle detracted)
(intransitive) To take away; to withdraw or remove.
(transitive) To take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry.
Synonyms
• (to take credit or reputation from; to defame or decry): defame, decry
• See also defame
Anagrams
• tracted
Source: Wiktionary
De*tract", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Detracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Detracting.] Etym: [L. detractus, p. p. of detrahere to detract; de + trahere to draw: cf. F. détracter. See Trace.]
1. To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.
2. To take credit or reputation from; to defame. That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do. Drayton.
Syn.
– To derogate; decry; disparage; depreciate; asperse; vilify; defame; traduce. See Decry.
De*tract", v. i.
Definition: To take away a part or something, especially from one's credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from. It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. V. Knox.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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