PROPEND

Etymology

Verb

propend (third-person singular simple present propends, present participle propending, simple past and past participle propended)

(obsolete, intransitive) To incline or lean.

To be inclined; to have a propensity to.

Source: Wiktionary


Pro*pend", v. i. Etym: [L. propendere, propensum; pro forward, forth + pendere to hang. See Pendent.]

Definition: To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak. We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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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.

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