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.
DISGAVEL
Etymology
Verb
disgavel (third-person singular simple present disgavels, present participle disgavelling, simple past and past participle disgavelled)
(UK, legal, transitive) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant.
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*gav"el, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgaveled or Disgaveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgaveling.] Etym: [See Gavelkind.] (Eng. Law)
Definition: To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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