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.
EPITROPE
E*pit"ro*pe, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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