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.
PICKEER
Etymology
Verb
pickeer (third-person singular simple present pickeers, present participle pickeering, simple past and past participle pickeered)
(obsolete) To make a raid for booty; to maraud.
(obsolete) To skirmish in advance of an army.
Source: Wiktionary
Pick*eer", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pickeered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pickeering.] Etym: [F. picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. pecorea robbery committed by straggling soldiers.]
Definition: To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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