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.
QUITCHES
Verb
quitches
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quitch
Source: Wiktionary
QUITCH
Quitch, n.
1. (Bot.)
Definition: Same as Quitch grass.
2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil. To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him. Tennyson .
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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