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.
MOUNTEBANKERIES
Noun
mountebankeries
plural of mountebankery
Source: Wiktionary
MOUNTEBANKERY
Mount"e*bank`er*y, n.
Definition: The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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