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.
OVERFREIGHT
Etymology
Verb
overfreight (third-person singular simple present overfreights, present participle overfreighting, simple past overfreighted, past participle overfraught)
(transitive) To overload with freight.
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*freight", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Overfreighted (Overfraught, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Overfreighting.]
Definition: To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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