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.
OVERTEEM
Etymology
Verb
overteem (third-person singular simple present overteems, present participle overteeming, simple past and past participle overteemed)
(intransitive) To be filled or swarming with something.
To exhaust or deplete by producing excessively.
Source: Wiktionary
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(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
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