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.
EXCOGITATES
Verb
excogitates
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of excogitate
Source: Wiktionary
EXCOGITATE
Ex*cog"i*tate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excogitated; p. pr. & vb. n.. Excogitating.] Etym: [L. excogitatus, p. p. of excogitare to excogitate; ex out + cogitare to think. See Cogitate.]
Definition: To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.
Ex*cog"i*tate, v. i.
Definition: To cogitate. [R.] Bacon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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