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.
OUTLEAP
Etymology
Noun
outleap (plural outleaps)
A sally; flight; escape.
A bursting forth; an ambush; a sudden quick effort.
Verb
outleap (third-person singular simple present outleaps, present participle outleaping, simple past and past participle outleaped or outleapt)
To leap out, as if from an ambush.
To leap beyond or farther than.
Anagrams
• peal out
Source: Wiktionary
Out*leap", v. t.
Definition: To surpass in leaping.
Out"leap`, n.
Definition: A sally. [R.] Locke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
Recent Word Finds
Word of the Day
19 June 2025
ROOTS
(noun) the condition of belonging to a particular place or group by virtue of social or ethnic or cultural lineage; “his roots in Texas go back a long way”; “he went back to Sweden to search for his roots”; “his music has African roots”
Coffee Trivia
