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.
PREASSURANCE
Etymology
Noun
preassurance (usually uncountable, plural preassurances)
previous assurance
Throughout animated Nature, of each characteristic Organ and Faculty there exists a preassurance, an instinctive and practical anticipation; and no preassurance common to a whole species does in any instance prove delusive.
Source: Wiktionary
Pre`as*sur"ance, n.
Definition: Previous assurance. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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