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.
OVERBROWING
Verb
overbrowing
present participle of overbrow
Source: Wiktionary
OVERBROW
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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