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.
HURTERS
Noun
hurters
plural of hurter
Source: Wiktionary
HURTER
Hurt"er, n.
1. A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like. The pains of sickness and hurts . . . all men feel. Locke.
2. An injury causing pain of mind or conscience; a slight; a stain; as of sin. But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. Tennyson.
3. Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.
Syn.
– Wound; bruise; injury; harm; damage; loss; detriment; mischief; bane; disadvantage.
Hurt"er, n.
Definition: One who hurts or does harm. I shall not be a hurter, if no helper. Beau. & Fl.
Hurt"er, n. Etym: [F. heurtoir, lit., a striker. See Hurt, v. t.]
Definition: A butting piece; a strengthening piece, esp.: (Mil.) A piece of wood at the lower end of a platform, designed to prevent the wheels of gun carriages from injuring the parapet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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