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.
GRUFFISH
Etymology
Adjective
gruffish (comparative more gruffish, superlative most gruffish)
Somewhat gruff.
He answered the telephone in a gruffish voice.
Source: Wiktionary
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INFERIOR
(adjective) having an orbit between the sun and the Earth’s orbit; “Mercury and Venus are inferior planets”
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