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.
PATHWAY
pathway, footpath
(noun) a trodden path
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pathway (plural pathways)
A footpath or other path or track.
(biochemistry) A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
(figurative) A course of action.
Source: Wiktionary
Path"way n.
Definition: A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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