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.
LAMBAST
cane, flog, lambaste, lambast
(verb) beat with a cane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
lambast (third-person singular simple present lambasts, present participle lambasting, simple past and past participle lambasted)
(UK) Alternative form of lambaste
Anagrams
• mat slab
Source: Wiktionary
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INTERSPERSION
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
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