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.
DROUTH
drought, drouth
(noun) a shortage of rainfall; “farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season”
drought, drouth
(noun) a prolonged shortage; “when England defeated Pakistan it ended a ten-year drought”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
drouth (plural drouths)
Alternative form of drought
Source: Wiktionary
Drouth, n.
Definition: Same as Drought. Sandys. Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon. One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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