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.
ECHOIZE
Etymology
Verb
echoize (third-person singular simple present echoizes, present participle echoizing, simple past and past participle echoized)
to create onomatopoeic words (i.e. words which are imitative of the sounds of they represent)
Source: Wiktionary
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17 June 2025
RECREANT
(adjective) having deserted a cause or principle; “some provinces had proved recreant”; “renegade supporters of the usurper”
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