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.
EARBASH
Etymology
Verb
earbash (third-person singular simple present earbashes, present participle earbashing, simple past and past participle earbashed)
(transitive) To scold or lecture verbally.
Anagrams
• Beshara
Source: Wiktionary
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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