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.
OUTHOWL
Etymology
Verb
outhowl (third-person singular simple present outhowls, present participle outhowling, simple past and past participle outhowled)
(transitive) To howl louder or longer than.
Anagrams
• howl out
Source: Wiktionary
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COMMISERATIVE
(adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy; “made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue”- Kenneth Roberts
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