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.
OUTPLOD
Etymology
Verb
outplod (third-person singular simple present outplods, present participle outplodding, simple past and past participle outplodded)
(transitive) To plod further or faster than.
Source: Wiktionary
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