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.
OVERBROW
Etymology
Verb
overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)
(poetic, transitive) To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*brow", v. t.
Definition: To hang over like a brow; to impend over. [Poetic] Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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