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.
ECHOISE
Etymology
Verb
echoise (third-person singular simple present echoises, present participle echoising, simple past and past participle echoised)
Alternative form of echoize
Source: Wiktionary
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THOUGHTLESS
(adjective) without care or thought for others; “the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; ‘Let them eat cake’”
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