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.
IMMISERATE
Etymology
Verb
immiserate (third-person singular simple present immiserates, present participle immiserating, simple past and past participle immiserated)
(transitive) To impoverish or sink into misery.
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DATELESS
(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”
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