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.
FORTHINK
Etymology
Verb
forthink (third-person singular simple present forthinks, present participle forthinking, simple past and past participle forthought)
(transitive, obsolete, impersonal) To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
(reflexive, obsolete) To regret; repent.
(transitive, obsolete) To regret.
(intransitive, obsolete) To repent, be sorry for.
(transitive, obsolete) To change one's mind about; to renounce.
Source: Wiktionary
For*think", v. t.
Definition: To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. [Obs.] "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”
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