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.
FATHOMLESS
Etymology
Adjective
fathomless (comparative more fathomless, superlative most fathomless)
Very deep (especially of water deeper than a lead line can measure); bottomless.
(by extension) unfathomable or incomprehensible.
Synonyms
• (very deep): soundless; See also deep
• (incomprehensible): ungraspable, unknowable; See also incomprehensible
Source: Wiktionary
Fath"om*less, a.
1. Incapable of being fathomed; immeasurable; that can not be sounded. And buckle in a waist most fathomless. Shak.
2. Incomprehensible. The fathomless absurdity. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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