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.
HYPOTHECATE
speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
(verb) to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; “Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps”
hypothecate
(verb) pledge without delivery or title of possession
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
hypothecate (third-person singular simple present hypothecates, present participle hypothecating, simple past and past participle hypothecated)
(transitive) To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
(politics, British) To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure
Usage notes
• Sometimes wrongly used in place of the word hypothesize.
Source: Wiktionary
Hy*poth"e*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hypothecated; p. pr. & vb. n. Hypothecating.] Etym: [LL. hypothecatus, p.p. of hypothecare to pledge, fr. L. hypotheca pledge, security. See Hypotheca.] (Law)
Definition: To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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