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.
EXPUGN
Etymology
Verb
expugn (third-person singular simple present expugns, present participle expugning, simple past and past participle expugned)
(obsolete) To take by storm; capture. [15th-17th c.]
Source: Wiktionary
Ex*pugn", v. t. Etym: [L. expugnare; ex out + pugnare to fight, pugna fight. Cf. Impugn.]
Definition: To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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