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.
GENERALSHIPS
Noun
generalships
plural of generalship
Source: Wiktionary
GENERALSHIP
Gen"er*al*ship, n.
1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith.
2. Military skill in a general officer or commander.
3. Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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