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.
OVERBOARD
overboard
(adverb) from on board a vessel into the water; “they dropped their garbage overboard”
overboard
(adverb) to extremes; “he went overboard to please his in-laws”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
overboard (not comparable)
Outside of a boat, in the water
Adverb
overboard (not comparable)
Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.
Excessively; too much.
Verb
overboard (third-person singular simple present overboards, present participle overboarding, simple past and past participle overboarded)
(transitive) To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.
Anagrams
• Veroboard, overbroad
Source: Wiktionary
O"ver*board`, adv.
Definition: Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into the water; as, to fall overboard. To throw overboard, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent or friend.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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